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"Let our Orthodoxy and our homeland be above all our thoughts and all our cares", said Archbishop Ieronymos during his departure from the Diocese of Athens, where Orthodox Sunday was celebrated today. in addition to, His Beatitude referred to the meaning of the day and its importance in the difficult days we are going through, noting that it would be better if the conditions were different and we all celebrated with the presence of believers. He expressed, however, the belief that next year everything will be better………..

Presence of the Catholicos Katerina Sakellaropoulou the Synodal Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Athens for Orthodox Sunday.

The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou participated in the Synodal Divine Liturgy for Orthodox Sunday, which was performed at the Cathedral of Athens by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Mr.. Jerome, supported by members of the Holy Synod.

After consultation with His Beatitude, the standard formal meal, in honor of the President and the members of the Permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on this great day of the feast of Orthodoxy, postponed, due to the aggravated epidemiological conditions prevailing in our country, for the right time, when health measures allow.

The celebration of Orthodox Sunday in the Diocese of Athens

Presence of the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, was performed today, A’ Sunday of Lent, the Synodal Divine Liturgy in the Diocese of Athens.

The sacrament of Holy Communion was performed by the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece Ieronymos, while the synodal metropolitans of Kifissia participated, Marillos and Oropos Cyril and Glyfada, Greek, Βούλας, Vouliagmenis and Varis Antonios. The master of ceremonies was Metropolitan N.. Ionia and Philadelphia Gabriel.

The present was given by members of the government, Members, ambassadors of Orthodox states, representatives of the Security Forces and the Armed Forces, in compliance with all appropriate sanitary measures to protect against the spread of coronavirus.

The solemnity of the day, during which the Church honors the restoration of the Holy Icons, delivered the synodal metropolitan of Ilio, Acharnon and St. Petersburg Athenagoras, who referred to today's New Testament Excerpt - the Lord's divine call to Nathanael- to emphasize that “the Ecclesiastical Tradition placed it in the standard of A.’ Lent Sunday, to help us on the journey of our faith-confidence in the discovery of the theatrical face of Christ ".

Including, He emphasized that the current Orthodox Nathanael is acquainted with Christ, turns to the inner world is born as a person and opens to God and to fellow human beings and on the occasion of the current situation he added that the essence. On the contrary, is an opportunity to highlight the personality of every believer and the authentic way of life in Christ ". Concluding his speech, Metropolitan Ilios stressed that "the pandemic is an occasion to get rid of the individualistic way of life, from the individual-centered way of thinking. The individual is a sociological and biological category, which belongs entirely to nature. It is part of the natural whole, from which it is cut by contrast, with demarcation, with isolation. If the person is transformed into a person, then it requires its passage into existence. Substance is a spiritual category. It is not a place, but it contains all this and this explains its ability to become existential. It is the occasion of the pandemic to free ourselves from the sterile and monolithic discourse, who can not stand the dialogue and gain the experience of the Person, selected… Of the Person in whom God Reveals His Truth ".

Before the Dismissal of the Divine Liturgy, part of the "Synod of Orthodoxy" was read during the tradition and order of the Church, in remembrance of the event of the Restoration of the sacred icons.

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