A memorial service for the victims of the Tempe train accident was held on Saturday morning at the Holy Chapel of Agios Filippos the Deacon inside the New Railway Station by the Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis Mr. Varnavas.

“A whole year after the tragedy and the pain and the pain of the railway accident, which froze the country and its people, we are here in the station temple, in St. Philip’s, to remember to commemorate, to not our children and people are bitter that they were forgotten. A crumb of offering, commemoration of names, candle with light and bath, prayer and gathering, unity and love, pain and pain, tears and bitterness, why not anger, but we here in our prayer” he said Metropolitan Barnabas and continued:

“Our local church at the entrance of the temple, as you enter the pillar of the entrance of the main temple, all the names and all the faces are kept alive. A constant presentation of the names to function together with our saints and every time the priest of the temple celebrates the Holy Eucharist, every time he remembers their names, so that the remembrance becomes a resistance to the indifference of all of us, to defeat the ugliness of death, to resurrect our country again from the beginning, with a lot of work, unity and love”.

Metropolitan Barnabas emphasized that in order to change the world, everyone needs to change personally and added that even the saints of our church knew that it is a “great and important thing”, that everyone “does his job well”.

“I am changing and the world will change with me. Most of us announce changes without any of us having changed. That’s why it’s time for each of us to change in our heart, love to drive away ugliness because the modern sin is the addiction to ugliness and we touch it without complaining and no one does anything to change us people every day” he said the metropolitan and added:

“In whatever circumstances we find ourselves, we will remember our people, we will remember the Resurrection, we will work and we will pray. Our resistance is Liturgy and prayer and these names will testify there that indifference breeds death.”

“When again” concluded Metropolitan Varnavas, after mentioning the names of the victims.

In addition to relatives of the victims, railway employees and station staff attended the memorial service, as among the victims commemorated were also train workers who lost their lives in the fatal accident.

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