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“The day and memory are bitter because spiritual error and lack of consciousness fail to ascribe Her full meaning,” said His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros in an encyclical issued yesterday. “And yet sweet, because we have the Great Church incarnate in our Venerable Ecumenical Patriarchate, which abides as a spirit-filled space leading the Faithful to embody in their own lives the Mystery of the Incarnation and the reality of God.”