This morning, students from New York City parochial schools arrived at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity to attend the Divine Liturgy presided over by Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on the Feast of the Three Hierarchs: Sts. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
Today also marks the Day of Greek Letters, which honors Hellenic learning, literature, philosophy, and the myriad influences of Greek Civilization upon the world throughout the last five thousand years.
The schools present at the Divine Liturgy included The Cathedral School in Manhattan, St. Demetrios Preparatory and the William Spyropoulos School in Queens, The Greek American Institute in the Bronx, as well as the A. Fantis and D.G. Kaloidis schools in Brooklyn.
“The great Theologians of our Church recognized in the Ancient Greek Philosophers a kindred spirit,” Archbishop Elpidophoros stated in an encyclical for the day. “The Fathers of the Church recognized these philosophical teachings as being not only applicable to the Christian way of life, but completely consistent with it, and therefore commended them to the Faithful.”
