Ierissou Theoklitos: Every time we misunderstand or deny our neighbor, we wrong ourselvestranslated

Today, Sunday November 15, 2026, Luke I, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ierissos, Mr. Theoklitos, visited the Holy Monastery of Agios Kosmas of Aitolos Arnea and presided over the Orthros and the following Divine Liturgy. His Eminence was welcomed by the Osiologiotate Cathigumeni of the Holy Monastery Nun Mariam, together with the Brotherhood of the Monastery, the Pan. Chief Fr. Gennadios Delis and Fr. Ephraim Tsolis, as well as the Deacon Fr. Seraphim Kostinoudis.

In his speech, His Eminence focused on the fact that today's holiday is a celebration and an honor for the value that is called human! He proclaimed that God made man a person, endowed him with a personality, giving his jealous existence a unique self-consciousness and a characteristic otherness. This creature is self-aware of its value, that is, it is a being with a unique identity that differentiates it from every other being, on the other hand the characteristic certainty that it is a unique and dissimilar being with a unique character, things that constitute and determine its existence and value.

So, said the Bishop, what constitutes man is his ability to face someone or something, to look towards...