{"id":7111,"date":"2021-06-30T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:51:12","slug":"apparently-its-a-virtue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/apparently-its-a-virtue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently It&#8217;s A Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Patience in Tribulation Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWho is Pope Kyrillos? The one who works miracles? Who casts out demons?\u201d quietly asked Fr Raphael, shaking his head. \u201cThat is not at all there is to Kyrillos; but if you want to know who he really is, I will tell you\u2026 <\/p><p>In 1968, there was a much-loved priest whom Kyrillos relocated to the patriarchate for six months to serve closely with him\u2026 The whole parish [unaware of the reason] rose in something of a revolution; Sunday school, youth groups, the church committee, all of them, asking, \u201cHow could you remove this beloved priest?&#8230; The people began cursing, buses arrived at the patriarchate overflowing with people. \u201cWe want our priest back,\u201d they screamed. Then after six months, Kyrillos moved him to another [far move thriving] parish\u2026 but once more the revolution arose; cursing and criticism began once more. And yet Kyrillos remained silent. This went on for some time until an old friend from Kyrillos\u2019 time in Old Cairo rebuked him: \u201cYou are causing trouble, everyone is disturbed and angry; just return the priest to his parish- do we need more troubles?\u201d Kyrillos calmly confided to his dear friend, \u201cIf you only knew the reality\u2026 this priest is not worthy of priesthood.\u201d<\/p><p>Not worthy of priesthood?&#8230; And yet he stayed silent for six months, being mocked, criticised, sworn at\u2026 and not once did Kyrillos open his mouth to explain. Not merely a mistake, the man was not worthy of priesthood at all, and yet he puts him in his bosom, in the patriarchate, and then returns him, healed.\u201d <\/p><cite>Fr Daniel Fanous. A Silent Patriarch: Kyrillos VI Life and Legacy,\u201d St Vladamir\u2019s Seminary Press (2019), New York, NY, pg. 307-308 <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Question<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Kyrillos VI welcomed tribulation for righteousness\u2019 sake. How can we choose to be righteous in all our tribulations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patience in Tribulation Part 2 Story \u201cWho is Pope Kyrillos? The one who works miracles? Who casts out demons?\u201d quietly asked Fr Raphael, shaking his head. \u201cThat is not at all there is to Kyrillos; but if you want to know who he really is, I will tell you\u2026 In 1968, there was a much-loved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/apparently-its-a-virtue-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apparently It&#8217;s A Virtue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}