Dimitriados Ignatios: "The priestly family is God's gift to society" - Ordination of a Deacon in Agriatranslated

At the Holy Church of the Twelve Apostles of Agria, today, Sunday, October 25, Rev. Metropolitan of Dimitrias, Mr. Ignatios, who, during the Divine Liturgy, performed the Deacon ordination of Mr. Georgios Moussa, in the presence of a large number of faithful, including relatives, friends and compatriots of the new cleric from Grevena, his place of origin. Father George is 30 years old, married, a second-year student at the School of Apprenticeship for Clerical Candidates (S.M.Y.K.) Vellas and comes from a priestly family, as his father, Father Theodoros, is a clergyman.

In his speech to the new Deacon, His Eminence expressed his special emotion for today, referring to their first acquaintance and the path that led Fr. George to the Priesthood, hinting that, "Georgios is not one of those who grew up with us, that I knew as a child or that I even knew. But he had the courage to come to my office, to ask me to be ordained in Our metropolis". He then described how his initial reluctance gradually turned to confidence when the aspiring clergy responded to his exhortation to proceed to ecclesiastical…