To represent the love that Peter and the disciple should have, the Lord presented Himself as a shepherd. It is not the first time the Lord used the image of a shepherd; He spoke one other time about shepherds and flock, both in the Old Testament and the New (Pss 22:1-5; 77:72-73; 13, Zachariah 10:3 Nah 3:18; Isa 40:11, 63:11; Jer 2:8; 3:1-3; ,15; 10:21; 12:10; 1 Peter 2:25; Heb 13:20; Ezek 34: 2-30, 37:24; Matt 9:36; , 10:16, 18:22; John 10:1-17; Eph 4:12.) In the Gospel of Saint John (10:1-17) two images are presented. One is the bad shepherd who enters the sheepfold, not through a gate, but another way, and is therefore not a real shepherd but a robber and thief who owes obedience to no one. The other is the beautiful image of the good shepherd who labors and sacrifices himself for the sheep. The Good Shepherd is Christ Himself. He said, "I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep" (St. John 10:11).

Repentance is not a self-contained act: it is a passing over, a Pascha from death to life, a continual renewal of that life. It consists of a reversal of what has become the normal pattern of development, which is the movement from life to death. To experience this reversal in repentance is to have tasted of the glory and beauty of God: it is the mark of man's presence before God in the abundance of His mercy.

A man who saw God, a wonderworker, and a zealot for faith in God, Elias was of the tribe of Aaron, from the Tishba, whence he was known as 'the Tishbite'. When Elias was born, his father Sabah saw Angels of God around the child, swaddling it with fire and feeding it with flames.

The Sacrament of Repentance and Confession is in decline and repentance is misapprehended. The decline and the misapprehension cannot be easily qualified, but they are unmistakable at least inasmuch as they are considered to be no more than incidental practices in the life of the Church today. The "traditional" way of thinking of sin and forgiveness has collapsed among a growing number of Christians. Nothing less than a theological and pastoral renewal is necessary in order to rediscover the living meaning of repentance and confession.

The Great Church dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God (Hagia Sophia) Αγία Σοφία, will be turned into a Moslem mosque by the recent decision of the Turkish government and president Erdogan.