Bartholomew: As long as we keep Christ and Greek education in our course and in our lives, then we are blessed and blessed

“As long as we keep Christ and Greek education in our course and in our lives, then we are blessed and blessed. “With these two wings, our nation is constantly flying upwards, to its final destination, which is none other than the kingdom of God”, said the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, upon his arrival earlier today in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, where he was welcomed – at the junction of Komninon and Metamorfoseos streets – representatives of the political and ecclesiastical leadership and a large number of believers.

“There could not be a more appropriate contribution of roads, to welcome our mediocrity, your Patriarch. Komnenians and Transfiguration of the Lord, race and church together, refugee area, refugee in the ends of the Universe and our blessed Romanism. Refugee and refugee My thought of history passed through the streets, when your fathers and fathers of us all arrived, blinded by tears and pain, deprived of the view of the homeland, with our Christ alone. My thoughts went through the whole history of the region, since in the sea below, rivers ran the tears of the refugees, the uprooted, the suffering children, of our East. Rivers and their honest sweat, so that we can build from principle on the foundations of Romanism, that is, in the Orthodox faith and in Greek culture “he added.

Welcoming the Ecumenical Patriarch, the Mayor of Kalamaria, Giannis Dardamanelis, pointed out that it is a blessing for everyone the presence of Bartholomew in Kalamaria and his reception at this point, “which combines the Holy Diocese of Kalamaria and the town hall, a point that highlights which exists between the church and the local authority. Always with the aim and purpose of the common good “.

“Your visit to the refugee Kalamaria fills us with joy, as your seventh presence will leave a religious and spiritual imprint on our city. A city that knows progress and evolves at a pace of modern development, but always preserving its tradition and cultural heritage.” a heavy legacy of refuge and pain, “he added.

Mr. Bartholomew arrived on foot in the courtyard of the Holy Temple of the Transfiguration, where an official eulogy is currently being held.

It was preceded by the unveiling of an iconography dedicated to Mr. Bartholomew’s visit to Kalamaria. The iconography, measuring about four by three and a half meters, depicts the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and many saints, as well as the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew together with the Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria Justin holding an image of the Virgin Mary. The iconography was created by the Christodoulou Brothers Hagiography Laboratory.

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