Ordination of a Deacon in Orestiadatranslated

In the Holy Parish Church of the Grand Commanders of Orestias, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Didymoteichos, Orestias and Soufli, Mr. Damascenes, officiated on Sunday, September 6, on the memory of the miracle of the Archangel Michael in Chonai (Colossians). Before the Divine Liturgy, His Holiness ordained a subdeacon and during the Divine Liturgy he ordained Konstantinos Kavouridis, from the Limestones of Didymoteicho, as a Deacon.

Addressing the ordained, on the occasion of the evangelical reading of the 14th Sunday of Matthew, he emphasized, among other things: "Today the Lord and Teacher is coming to overturn the views of most about Heaven and the Kingdom of Heaven. Heaven is not a state, as Buddhists believe, and it is not a place, as Muslims claim. The Kingdom of Heaven is a relationship. It is a living marriage relationship with the Bridegroom, the savior of our soul, our Savior and Redeemer Christ. It is an integral and endless relationship, in which man gives God his life and Christ gives man His Body, His Blood and the uncreated actions of His grace, the most important of which is...