Message of His Eminence Metropolitan Aetolia and Acarnania and Damascenes for Sunday September 13, 2026translated

My beloved Fathers and Brothers,

My beloved children in the Lord,

Great is the mystery of the Cross, which we celebrate tomorrow! His spiritual depth is inaccessible to human reason. Its theological dimensions exceed any size of this world. His message calls the human mind to detach itself from the mundane and to turn to the heavenly, seeking the Triune God of infinite charity.

What words can describe the plan of the Divine Economy? The Supreme Being, the Dweller of the unreachable height of the absolutely transcendent Deity, descends to the depths of human tragedy, becomes man, bears all the consequences of human failure and rises again. Not, however, as an earthly King and a glorious Redeemer, but as a bruised and exhausted one, as an outcast from human society, as Crucified, as a hero of the scorn and derision of the world's powers.

How can the worldly man perceive the greatness of such an elevation, when what is sought for him is the fame, the social acclaim and the bitter glory of the people? How can he accept as a kingdom and save a poor and insignificant Teacher from the...