Message of His Eminence Metropolitan Aetolia and Acarnania and Damascenes for Sunday November 8, 2026translated

My beloved Fathers and Brothers,

My beloved children in the Lord,

In today's gospel passage, the evangelist Luke invites us to walk with him a tragic road, a road of death. Its final purpose, however, is to overcome sadness and despair and to be led to optimism and hope.

Jairus is an archsynagogue, i.e. a prominent member of the Jewish society. He is a man of social status, prestige and acquaintances. Today, however, all this does not matter. Today he stands before us as a father who fights for his twelve-year-old only daughter. It is obvious that he has no hope left. He is ready to look for the solution where human logic stops and where the answers seem to come from another world and from other forces.

Information is coming from everywhere about a special teacher, but also about a doctor of souls and bodies. He learns that he is near. However, he does not send envoys. He decides to go to Jesus Christ himself and ask Him to visit his house and heal his daughter. Indeed, Christ starts with him, but on the way the news arrives that the girl...