Hello Orthodox! Film (Ταινία / Ελληνικοί Υπότιτλοι)

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thank you for everything we have done in

fiji all the children in serene they are

waiting for you

church

home

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so this is what you have prayed for us

all

and thank you for everything that you

made for us

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i hope that you will have a good day and

be safe and have a good life

and always pray for

us and we will pray for you

with your blessing

we all miss you and love you

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peace

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yo

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the

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foreign

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while you were here

you always brought happiness to us all

we all thank you for the love you gave

us

i hope you get well and healthy so that

you can visit us in fiji

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eyes

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so

uh

oh

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when the holy metropolis of new zealand

was established in 1970

its jurisdiction extended to include

parts of asia

that has changed over time

and after his eminence metropolitan

officios who was appointed in 2005

the ecumenical patriarch gave him the

responsibility to share the greek

orthodox faith in the pacific islands of

fiji tonga and some more

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in the short period of time between 2005

and 2018 metropolitan amphilogios

achieved more than is ever possible to

imagine

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we are here

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oh

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foreign

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of men of souls that's what the bishop

did

he literally he did that he'd just walk

and

meet people and they'd be drawn to him

it's a gift from god i think

foreign

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so

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so

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when we went there

we knew absolutely no one and i asked

him i said what do we do

where do we go he said leave it up to

god the people were very friendly

obviously at the beginning they didn't

know who you were they saw him with the

beard and the black outfit

after a while when we tell them we're

orthodox

when they see us again in town they'd

greet us and say hello orthodox

everything started as one big miracle

and

as the vision of and prayer of one man

and his faith in god

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came here in fiji in 2008

and that time he did no english

nothing he couldn't speak a word i was

working in a shop

it was a very busy day

he was wearing black it was very unusual

and i said i have to take blessing from

this man

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that was the initial idea that was from

the beginning

of hope and

plan to have orphanage established in

fiji

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is

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in the year 2015 the orphanage was

established as centa bitter home in

cooperation with the social welfare

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social welfare got involved

and so they started bringing children

too but we also took in children from

parents who had a lot of difficulty

raising their children also from broken

backgrounds where there's families where

the alcoholic background or abuse and

we'd help them out and one thing led to

another and it kind of molded its way on

its own

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we have 19 boys and six girls all

together we have 25 children they have

their own chores they have to set their

bed they have to clean they have their

own duties individual child has their

own duty

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initially we started with

mixed group of

boys and girls uh

later on we understood that it's better

that we have boys

in the

in the children's home

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the girls that are staying with us are

basically in the monastery of the

dormition

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we always wake up at

five o'clock

we do our prayer

and

we do some a bit of duties and then

we help the sisters in their needs

and then we get ready and

we have breakfast and we go to school

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it's whatever and melanie and assistance

told us to do we do it like cutting the

grass cleaning the house and doing all

the stuff until it finished and all the

goals is to go down to the orphanage and

help the kids

in their homeworks

especially in medicine english

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then in the school it's about

seven eight hours in spending time in

school

then i walk i have to walk back home

because i like walking with my friends

so i usually walk back home come

wash my uniform

have my break tea break

then if i have a lot of homework then

i'll do homework

i have only my mother my father died

last year

when he died i was really upset because

i liked him

more than anything

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and six o'clock is we have vespers

it's it's daily

so six to six thirty during church

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before three years four years ago we had

a brother who came from greece

his father petrus now and he used to

teach them byzantine music but they but

he never teach them how to do the

vespers the liturgy of course you teach

them how to do in the martins the

vespers they just pick by themselves

because they are there every day

for half an hour and don't know what is