T HE E VERLASTING N OW Pentecost 2012

Χ Ρ Ό ΝΟΣ = G5550 The first Greek term is chronos, meaning time on the move, time as before and after, time as the future passing through the present and so becoming the past. From this Greek word chronos we derive such English terms as chronic, chronicle, and chronology. Thus, we call an illness chronic if it lasts a long time. A chronicle is an account of events through a sequence of time. Chronology is the itemized, studied measurement of time.

Κ ΑΙΡ Ό Σ = G 2540 Kairos, because it is present, is an icon of eternal life. To experience the now, after all, one must be alive. The dead know nothing of now. Therefore, the now, the kairos, is an icon of the life of heaven. Indeed, eternal life is an everlasting now, in which there is no sequence, no before and after. Here on earth, kairos is time as significant and decisive when special things happen. Fr Patrick Reardon, orthodoxy today

1. P AULINE E PISTLE 1) No Jealousy 2) No favouritism 3) There is oneness

C ATHOLIC E PSITLE  And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.  26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. 1 Jn 2:25-27

A CTS  When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1

T HE W ORD IS FULFILLED 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel : 17 ‘ And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

P SALM 47: 5,7  God has gone up with a shout, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet. For God is the King of all the earth.

T HE G OSPEL  But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. Jn 15: 26,27

T HE G OSPEL  "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak ; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. Jn 16: 12:15

 The presence of God dwelling in us, and conversely our participation in Him, is the sine qua non of newness of life in Christ, and a characteristic mark of St. Cyril’s thought. It is only by means of Christ dwelling in us, through the Holy spirit and through his own flesh, that we can be conformed to the image of the Son and bear the fruit of the Spirit. Daniel Keating the theology of St Cyril of Alexandria P166