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News from Orthodoxy in Albania \u2014 No. 6 – March 23, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

News from<\/p>\n

Orthodoxy in Albania<\/p>\n

Occasional Publication of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania<\/p>\n

Number 6, March 23, 1998<\/p>\n

Articles in this Issue:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Powerful Witness of the Resurrection of our Orthodox Church<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Church \u201cRejoices\u201d Over New Children\u2019s Magazine<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Archbishop Visits Patriarchate of Alexandria<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Tirana Women\u2019s Group Reaching Out to the Poor<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Fifth Church Kindergarten Opened<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Mobile Dental Clinic Begins Work in Albania<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Church Offers Support to Universities<\/p>\n

Powerful Witness of the Resurrection of the Orthodox Church<\/p>\n

– 100 priests and deacons father for national clergy meeting<\/p>\n

His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios, together with 100 priests and deacons, gathered for a national clergy meeting on February 12, 1998 at the Resurrection of Christ Theological Academy located at the Monastery of St. Vlash, Durres. Due to instability in the country, this was the first meeting in more than two years for clergy from all four dioceses around Albania to come together in a pastoral setting with the Archbishop. The gathering included 92 clergymen from the new generation of priests and deacons who have been ordained over the past six years, together with several older priests ordained before the Church closed in 1967, as well as other missionary priests.<\/p>\n

It was also the first time for many of the clergy to see firsthand the beautiful new complex of the St. Vlash Monastery and the Resurrection of Christ Theological Academy. Most of the recently ordained clergy studied at the seminary when it was still located in an old, dilapidated workers camp on the beach of Durres from 1992-1996.<\/p>\n

After a prayer of thanksgiving and doxology service Thursday morning, the meeting opened with an address by Archbishop Anastasios in which he emphasized the importance of remembering our past while looking forward to our future. He gave a summary of the past six years, and focused on all the positive achievements accomplished by the Church. He made mention of the most obvious fact of 100 clergy gathering together. When the Church reopened in 1991, only 22 clergy had survived the communist era, of which only five are still alive. Today 92 new priests have passed through three years of learning and training to be prepared to serve the Church.<\/p>\n

Another clear reminder of the progress of the Church was the meeting place itself. The Theological Academy comfort-ably housed all 100 participants over the two day meeting. It was emphasized, however, that the school is only one of the hundreds of new buildings the Church has erected over the past six years. Seventy new churches have been built, 63 reconstructed, and 100 repaired during these years.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop mentioned other areas of progress \u2013 in social, developmental and health outreach, in the establishment of groups among the children, youth, women and intellectuals in most cities, and in educational and catechetical ministry among all the various groups.<\/p>\n

After the Archbishop spoke, various priests and lay leaders offered other topics including Spiritual Responsibilities of the Priest, The Priest and Modern Society, Canonical Obedience for the Priests, Church Finances, Church Publications and Distribution, Recovery of Church Properties, and Church Construction. Interspersed between these talks were morning and evening worship services, open discussions and brotherly fellowship.<\/p>\n

Church \u201cRejoices\u201d Over New Children\u2019s Magazine<\/p>\n

The Office of Publications for the Orthodox Church in Albania recently published the fourth edition of its new children\u2019s magazine \u201cGezohu\u201d (\u201cRejoice\u201d). This monthly magazine is geared towards children ages 6 to 13. Each month 2,000 copies of the magazine are distributed throughout the country and sold through the church. Future plans include selling the magazine in bookstores in the major cities.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Anastasios had desired for a long time to begin such a children\u2019s magazine. It was actualized in September, 1997 when an editorial committee, including a professor of child psychologist, was selected and proceeded to decide the magazine\u2019s name and to discuss the format. The first edition was printed in November. The current editor of the publication is George Bushaka, one of Albania\u2019s best-known children\u2019s writers and publishers. The contents of the magazine include a variety of spiritual and educational themes. It features popular Bible stories, teachings about Orthodox feast days, adapted lives of the saints, and other religious topics, as well as social and moral children\u2019s stories, scientific articles, special sporting events, interviews, puzzles, problem solving activities, and proverbs.<\/p>\n

The multicolor magazine is full of pictures and illustrations, including photographs of historical monuments. Special competitions inviting students to submit their artwork, poetry, and other writings are continuous and published periodically.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Visits Patriarchate of Alexandria<\/p>\n

Archbishop Anastasios, as the head of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, made an official visit to Patriarch Petros of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt on February 25 \u2013 March 3, 1998. Together with the Archbishop were Archimandrite Joan Pelushi, Fr. Jani Trebicka, and Deacon Josif Gjyli.<\/p>\n

During their meetings, the two heads of these autocephalous churches discussed issues and problems related to their respective sees. Archbishop Anastasios has a special interest in the lands and mission in Africa, especially since he was Acting Archbishop of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) from 1981-1991.<\/p>\n

The visit to Alexandria also gave the Archbishop an opportunity to visit Patriarch Shenuda of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Patriarch Shenuda is the head of the more than 8,000,000 Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt. The Patriarchate of Alexandria was one of the most important and ancient sees in early Christendom. Together with the Churches of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Antioch, they comprised the five centers of the early Christian Church. From the Second Ecumenical Council, Alexandria was placed in importance after only Rome and Constantinople.<\/p>\n

Thus, it is a tradition for the head of every Orthodox Autocephalous Church to make official visits to their sister Orthodox Churches around the world in their order of seniority.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Anastasios first officially visited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Church in Constantinople. Future plans include visits to some of the other 13 Autocephalous Orthodox Churches around the world.<\/p>\n

Tirana Women\u2019s Group Reaching Out to the Poor<\/p>\n

First there is a visit to Petro\u2019s house. He is blind. His wife and he have no children. They struggle to survive on their combined pension of $40 a month. They live alone and few people ever visit them. That is, until several women of the Tirana women\u2019s group heard about them and began making weekly visits with food, house supplies, and an abundance of love. They even supplement their income from time to time.<\/p>\n

Another visit is to Luljeta, a 43 year old woman who has been bedridden for the past 23 years with muscular dystrophy. She has been living in a hospital room for the past seven years. Several months ago one of the women from the Tirana group met her. Now, almost weekly, different women pass by the hospital with flowers, little gifts, or simply a word of love and concern to Luljeta.<\/p>\n

Petraq is a divorcee. His wife left him several years ago. He lost his house in the investment frauds that rocked Albania last year. He himself is an orphan, and has no extended family. He lives in a 3m x 4m room in the basement of an apartment building. He struggles to find daily work, which at best may pay him three dollars a day. But work is scarce. Numerous times the women\u2019s group has passed by his house with a special care package, a little monetary gift, or most importantly, a compassionate presence expressing care and concern.<\/p>\n

These are just three of countless stories which involve the women\u2019s group of Tirana. Other visits include outreach to homebound people, to orphanages, to a boarding house for street children, to a school for the blind and deaf, and to the hospital. Monthly, they offer meals at a men\u2019s Old Age Home.<\/p>\n

Regularly they reach out to 300 other poor or desperate families around Tirana, and last Christ-mas, they delivered 800 pack-ages of food to needy families.<\/p>\n

Most of their support comes from money collected in their \u201cBox for the Poor,\u201d which sits in the entrance to the Cathedral of Tirana. Over the past two years, from this box alone they have collected and distributed more than $10,000 worth of aid and love in small ways to countless people.<\/p>\n

This women\u2019s group learned the necessity of putting their faith into concrete practice from their twice weekly lessons on Spiritual Formation and Catechism. At the foundation of their work are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he said, \u201cI was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and in prison and you visited me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifth Church Kindergarten Opened in City of Lushnje<\/p>\n

On February 16, 1998, on behalf of Archbishop Anastasios, Fr. Martin Ritsi presided over the water blessing of the fifth kindergarten to open under the auspices of the Orthodox Church. The newly renovated kindergarten is in the city of Lushnje, and has 95 children enrolled in its days program.<\/p>\n

The first of the Orthodox Church\u2019s kindergarten\u2019s was opened in Tirana in October 1994, with an enrollment of 26 children. It later moved to a renovated building beside the Cathedral of the Annunciation, and now includes 70 children. The Kindergarten of Durres opened in June, 1995 with an enrollment of 25 children. It continues to function in a rented building, but has grown to 70 children. The Kindergarten of Korca also opened in June 1995 with an enrollment of 25 children in a rented house. It now has expanded to 70 children. The Kindergarten of Kavaja opened in January 1997 in their large Church complex that also includes a medical clinic, guest house, and youth center. It enrolls 100 children. Future plans include to find permanent buildings for the Kindergartens of Korca and Durres, and to establish new kindergartens in the cities of Gjirokastro and Elbasan.<\/p>\n

The Kindergartens are all staffed by licensed Albanian nursery school teachers. The program includes the state\u2019s program of math, language and art requirements, which has been modified to included updated methods. A primary Orthodox catechism program, along with a foreign language component (English or Greek) supplements the State program.<\/p>\n

To improve the qualifications of its teachers, the Church has received approval from the Ministry of Education in Albania to offer training seminars for its teachers. Specialized teachers from Greece and America have offered teaching seminars on various theoretical and practical aspects of early childhood education. In January, Kiki Papavassiliou, a noted Greek educator, offered a four-day seminar featuring a hands-on approach to learning language and math skills. An extensive training seminar is planned for the summer.<\/p>\n

Mobile Dental Clinic Begins Work in Albania<\/p>\n

At the beginning of March, the Orthodox Mobile Dental Clinic began operating. This is a part of INTERREG II, an Albanian-Greek Dental Health program approved by the official health board of the European Community.<\/p>\n

The Mobile Clinic is a large van which contains modern dental equipment. Dental care offered includes regular teeth cleaning, fillings, emergency care, placement of bridges for children, care of gums, removal of cysts, and treatment for other oral infections.<\/p>\n

The Mobile Clinic will have two phases. The first phase includes a cooperative effort between Greek and Albanian dentists. The second phase will be only with Albanian dentists. Each Albanian dentist included in both phases will pass through two specialty programs. First, they will partake in a 250 hour qualification and demonstration course of tooth protection, including new methods of care. Second, they will participate in 750 hours of practical work. The dental clinic will visit schools in the rural areas of Albania, as well as in Tirana, Gjirokaster, Korca, Himara, and Saranda. The focus will be on children from 6-18 years old. The aim is to reach 5000 patients, as well as to begin teaching the people how they can best protect and care for their teeth in a proactive manner.<\/p>\n

Under the initiative of Archbishop Anastasios, and in cooperation with the Monastery of Simonopetro of Mount Athos, this program became a reality when it was officially sponsored by the European Union (70%) and the Greek Ministry of Health (30%). The Church of Albania itself is the one responsible to put this program into action.<\/p>\n

Church Offers Support to Universities<\/p>\n

In response to a request for aid by Mr. Banush Mezini, the rector of the \u201cEqerem \u00c7abej\u201d University of Gjirokaster, Archbishop Anastasios visited the campus on January 19, 1998 in order to see the situation of the University. Earlier, the Archbishop, on behalf of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, offered a gift of $10,000 USD worth of furniture for the computer laboratories of the School.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the Church has offered aid to the public universities. Last year, in response to a request for aid from the Agricultural University of Tirana after its total destruction in March 1997, the Archbishop decided to use funds that were designated for the construction of a Church and instead offered them to the University. The Technical Office of the Orthodox Church offered the labor and materials in replacing doors and 60 windows (2.2m x. 1.4m), as well as plastering and painting the building. The total expense of the project was over $20,000 USD.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop has a keen interest in the welfare of the universities of Albania, especially since he himself was a professor of History of Religions of the University of Athens for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

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