Bearing Witness Before the Church

When I set about writing the book “Bearing Witness Before the Church”, which is a reading in the third epistle of John, I was seized by the idea of not sending it for publication before I made a pilgrimage to the house of the Apostle in the city of Ephesus, and there, get to inhale his remaining fragrance. This idea did not see the light. I replaced it with another: that the Apostle is present in his own words. This other idea gave me to make myself, literarily, one of the readers who have received the epistle. The idea here is not an innovation that I attribute to myself. The Church teaches that the Scriptures, yesterday, today and tomorrow, is a personal message to the faithful, as communities and as individuals. I dedicated this book to the brethren in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) whom I perceived, in my life, to be a word that helped me read the message we have received in the Scriptures. This is a renewal of history that the Word always grants us to start with it a new covenant that would be an extension to the One Covenant.