Published by Pemptousia Partnership on January 2, 2021 Archimandrite Nikanor Karayannis ‘The beginning of the Gospel of Christ’… The word ‘beginning’ in today’s Gospel reading is enough in itself to evoke the start of the new year, the threshold of which we reached a few days ago with the feast of Christmas. The Christian notion of time In the old days, people were in awe of the dark enigma of time. They tried