Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God and Saint Paisios in St. Andrä am Zicksee

On Sunday, 8 November 2026, on the occasion of the Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria and Exarch of Hungary presided over the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God and Saint Paisios in St. Andrä am Zicksee. Concelebrating with him were the fathers of the Monastery: Archimandrite Bartholomew Ungureanu; Hieromonks Iakovos Giannopoulos and Andreas Bola; the Archdeacon of the Holy Metropolis, Georgios Meleshko; and Hierodeacon Augustine.

In his sermon, the Metropolitan emphasized that the Gospel reading for the Seventh Sunday of Luke reveals the mystery of God’s presence within the perishable nature of human existence. Christ encounters the woman suffering from a flow of blood and the daughter of Jairus as the incarnate Word, who truly assumed human nature in order to heal it and unite it with divine life.

Salvation flows from this communion with His person. The human person encounters God, who draws near to His creation with condescension and love. The Lord’s flesh is life-giving because it is the flesh of the very Son of God, inseparably united with His divinity. For…