The church has never been against technology

A few days after the front of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, Archbishop Joan Pelushi was today invited to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s « Talking » Podcastin. The Archbishop showed how he had a desire to become a priest at an unimaginable time in the 1980s, when the Communist dictatorship was still in our country. Rama recalled the conversations with Archbishop, Joan Plushi, held on the streets of Myslym Shyri in Tirana of the dark years of dictatorship, when freedom of faith was a distant dream, with the latter being a desire to become a priest.

« In those times no one thought that one day we could go out into the free world and practice our faith, »-Rama said, indicating that it was the archbishop who, with unwavering conviction, had told him: « I will become a priest. » In a full -time and spiritual conversation, Archbishop Plushi showed that he had grown up in a non -religious family and that he had begun an internal journey through reading, recalling that reading the Gospel in the fourth year of the gymnasium restored his childhood joy and changed his life forever. Joan Archbishop said that « the church has never been against technology, but technology itself cannot solve the existential act ».

« I come from a very large and non -Christian family, at that time no faith was practiced. It was not conversion, there was nothing. In my youth I liked to read endlessly. Man is a thirsty being, but it depends on what water I first read, in the 4th year of the gymnasium something deep inside me.

I thanked God for returning my joy. At that moment my life changed. I was lucky enough to get to know people who had access to even more advanced books. And along with Petro Zheji we almost read the entire library on Elbasan Street and had valuable books. And we understood this later when we went out to Italy and America. At the school where I went I saw that I had read most of the books. The conviction of becoming a priest was born then. «