Veroia Panteleimon: The Cross of Christ is strength and protectiontranslated

On Sunday, September 13 (before the Ascension), the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Berea, Naoussa and Campania Mr. Panteleimon officiated and preached the divine word in the Holy Church of Agios Alexandros in Alexandria (Imathia). At the end of the Divine Liturgy, His Holiness ordained the priest Konstantinos Karkamanis as Reader.

His Excellency's speech

"We were not born boasting except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ".

The eve of the great feast of the universal exaltation of the honorable and life-giving Cross of our Lord and the speech of the foremost apostle Paul is about the Cross.

What was the cross? It was the instrument with which the greatest villains, the most terrible criminals were killed in the time of Christ. And this condemnation was chosen by the Jews for our Lord, who "became beneficial and healed" their physical and mental diseases. They chose this condemnation, because they believed that in this way they would be freed from his presence and would not feel his reason to control them. They chose this condemnation, because hatred and envy did not allow them to admit that Christ was indeed the Son of God and the redeemer of the world, he was the Messiah who...