Catechetical Sermon on the Beginning of Holy and Great Lent (2026)translated

+ BARTHOLOMA JOS ELEῼ THEO ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND Ecumenical Patriarch PANTI Tῼ STAFF OF THE CHURCH, GRACE BE AND PEACE THROUGH OUR SAVIOR AND LORD JESUS CHRIST, GRANT ME WISHES, BLESSINGS AND FORGIVENESS Reverend brothers Priests and children blessed in the Lord, With holy emotion, we enter this year again, by Divine grace, into the Holy and Great Pentecost, into the stage of ascetic struggles, the time of fasting and...