It is with profound gratitude to our Lord for His manifold blessings that we welcome you to the St. Gregory Nazianzen Orthodox Institute website. The Institute is an academic unit of Universidad Rural de Guatemala (URG) and offers traditional and distance undergraduate and postgraduate certificate and degree programs across several disciplines. The Institute's School of Orthodox Studies is also accredited by the Department of Education of the Archdiocese of Mexico (Ecumenical Patriarchate), and is thereby certified to train candidates for ordination and other ministries in the Church. The objectives of the Institute are to prepare men and women for leadership in the Orthodox Church, and moreover, to advance apostolic diakonia and outreach in Latin America, by creating an environment that fosters growth in knowledge, faith, spiritual life and experience, orthopraxis, and service. The Institute's work complements the apostolic ministry and response of the Archdiocese of Mexico to our Lord's command to "go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19).
We therefore thank the Rt. Rev. Mitered Archimandrite Dr. Andrew (Vujisić), URG President Dr. Fidel Reyes-Lee, and all those who have voluntarily and gratuitously assisted, (and who continue to assist), in this noble undertaking for their self-sacrificing labors in the establishment, organization, and operation of the Institute. We wish to all of the professors and students an ever deeper appreciation of the mystery of salvation, leading to active service and ministry in the Orthodox Church and, ultimately, culminating in eternal life. We also pray that participation in the programs of the Institute may educate, spiritually enlighten, form, and strengthen a multitude of new workers in Christ's vineyard who will support the evangelical and pastoral mission of the Orthodox Church in Latin America and throughout the world. This holy endeavor is both necessary and timely, "for the harvest is great but the workers are few" (Matthew 9:37), and accordingly, with great joy, we bestow our fatherly best wishes and apostolic blessings.
With paternal love in Christ,
Metropolitan ATHENAGORAS of Mexico
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In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ ... and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.
