"The celebration of the holidays and the celebration of our festivals finds us totally injured this year.. Humiliated the universe by an invisible particle is forced to isolate societies ", says the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos in his Easter message……..
And he points out: "It simply came to our notice then: Christ is directed; The facts seem revealing. Let us remain faithful disciples of Christ. In the joy of the Resurrection that will follow and we are already celebrating, ”πάντα πεπλήρωται φωτός, ουρανός τε και γη και τα καταχθόνια”. Θα κάνουμε πράξη το ”Αλλήλους περιπτυξώμεθα”».
Nevertheless, emphasizes: "Against the wear and tear, the Grace of the Resurrection is enlightened. The Resurrection of the Lord, this act of God in History, paved the way for the complete transcendence of death, spiritual and biological ".
The message of the Blessed One in detail:
My brothers and my children, dear Lord
Death celebrates necrosis!
Christ is Risen!
The empty monument, the focus of our desires and worship, it always distorts how death is pressed to death.
The Risen Lord stands out, in an unprecedented condition for humanity, as the ultimate hope; at the same time as the ultimate challenge. In the "fall and resurrection of many".
The celebration of the holidays and the feast of our festivals finds a total of injured people this year. Humiliated the universe by an invisible particle is forced to isolate societies. They close borders.
"Convergence of nations in wonder". Distance in our social relationships and in our homes. We count wounds, unfortunately also loss of life. Some say that many things may change forever, that everything is rewritten from scratch.
The postmodern man is stripped naked. It is clear that with dowry narcissism and unbridled consumerism we have no answers to the problem. We feel deeply wounded in our worship life.
Against the wear and tear, the Grace of the Resurrection is enlightened. The Resurrection of the Lord, this act of God in History, paved the way for the complete transcendence of death, spiritual and biological.
Hades "reigns, but’ it lasts forever ". The Risen Godman reveals the infinite possibilities that human nature and all of us acquire by Grace.
Human responsibility and virtue, honesty, “The only way n’ we resist the plague ", as we read wonderfully in literature, they can now take on the value of the Kingdom of God.
Human solidarity to become a sacrificial love for one's brother, worship of the Risen One, holiness. We have been given to destroy with Christ the keys of death.
The resurrected body of Christ bears all this gift. It is a source of incorruption, immortality medicine. Christ proposes to us the type of nails to believe. Conquered by the bruise and omnipotent.
He offers us all to commune with Him. He unanimously unites them "from a loaf of bread and a glass participating…in a Spirit of Holy Communion ". Forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
The Grace of the Resurrection seems to be always a challenge. "Those who heard the resurrection of the dead,. Christ is the chosen one.
In "resurrection of life" and in "resurrection of judgment". And yet our spiritual tradition confirms that, if we want, it is the only real possibility of all union.
My brothers and my children, dear Lord,
Our Worship was injured this year. The question overflows: Christ is coming; The facts seem revealing. Let us remain faithful disciples of Christ.
In the joy of the Resurrection that will follow and we are already celebrating, "It simply came to our notice then, heaven and earth and the depths ". We will put into practice "We develop each other".
My brothers,
Christ is risen.
Σ’ this difficult time with the additional border difficulties for our country, let's have hope.
We applaud and pray for those who serve the homeland there and for those who are fighting the pandemic., doctors, nurses, employees in the Health Sector.
Let the salutation of the Risen One shake our existence.
Truly the Lord is risen!
THE ARCHBISHOP