Dimitriados Ignatios: "Lead people to Christ and not to yourself" - Ordination of a Presbyter in Almyrostranslated

At the Holy Church of Agios Dimitrios Almyros, today, Saturday, October 24, Rev. Metropolitan of Dimitrias, Mr. Ignatios, who, during the Divine Liturgy, performed the ordination to Eldership of the Deacon of the Church, Fr. Nikolaos Kotoulas, in the presence of clergy from the region of Volos and Almyros. The new Elder is 25 years old, married, a graduate of the Philosophy School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a student of the Theology School.

In the address to the new Elder, His Holiness first referred to the cross-resurrection content of the priestly ministry, pointing out that the path of the clergy is a path of sacrifice, offering, but also of resurrection joy. "The course is cross-resurrected. We have experienced it and we are all experiencing it, especially we clergy in the Church, precisely because we are priests of Christ and Christ taught us and is teaching us that Calvary always precedes the Resurrection".

At the same time, he characterized today as a day of special blessing for the local Church, as a new person from its bowels enters the ranks of the Holy Clergy, taking on an "uphill, but...