The feast of Agios Asterios in Ano Vathia Eviatranslated

The memory of Agios Asterios was celebrated with splendor in the homonymous chapel of Agioi Asterios and Melitonos, in Ano Vathia Evia. On the evening of Thursday, October 29, the eve of the holiday, the Great Solemn Vespers was held, pre-deputy Hierarch of the Holy Metropolis of Halkidos, Panosiology Archimandrite Timotheus Baibakis. Protopresbyter Dimitrios Argyris, vicar of Ano Vathia, retired Elder Anargyros Tsipokas, of the Holy Metropolis of Karystia, and Elder Zisis-Ioannis Fourmouzis, vicar of the Holy Church of Agios Nikolaos Eretria, participated. Protopresbyter Evangelos Stournaras, vicar of the parish of Sykamin, of the Holy Metropolis of Kifissia, Amarousi, Oropos and Marathon, as well as the celebrant Hierodeacon of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, Fr. Asterios Apostolou, founder of the Holy Chapel, attended the prayer.

The divine word was preached by Archimandrite Timotheus Baibakis, who referred to the path of sanctification, as a spiritual path and way of life that leads man to moral purity, freedom from sin and, finally, to union with God, i.e. to deification.

After Vespers, it took place...