"The moments for our country are very critical, as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic threatens the health and lives of many of our fellow human beings……..
Our Church, where, from the first moment, entered the forefront of the national effort to protect the human face, and observed, and observes, all the instructions and all the suggestions of the competent health authorities of our country,calls, in view of the Doxology for our national anniversary of October 28th, and within the boundaries of our Holy Archdiocese, the primary schools, regional and other political officials to participate, this year, in a different way ", emphasizes exclusively in APE-MPE the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece Ieronymos.
And he adds: "To honor the heroic sacrifices of our ancestors, of the Greeks who gave their lives for our place, without taking part in official ceremonies, thus setting a good example for avoiding mass rallies, where, according to experts, are the main source of virus spread.
"After all, every national holiday is a day of remembrance, is a day of responsibility and debt for all of us.
It is an opportunity to pray to the Advocate General and Mother of us all,the Most Holy Theotokos, to cover our homeland from any kind of visible or invisible threat and scourge ".
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