Luke 4 Sunday in the Church of Aetolia and Acarnaniatranslated

In the Holy Metropolitan Church of Zoodochos Pigi Agrini, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damascenes, officiated at the Orthro Service and presided at the High Priestly Divine Liturgy, on Sunday, October 11, 2026, on the occasion of the presence of the Venerable and Charitable Kara of the Holy and Theophorous David of Elder of Evia, but also the, by postposition, the feast of the patron Saint of the Agrini Medical Association, Saint Luke the Evangelist, the Physician. Collaborating with His Holiness was the Professor of the Holy Monastery of Agios Davids of the Elder Archim. Gabriel, the Archm. Kallinikos Kazantzis, Archdeacon Dimitrios Lagoudis and Hierodeacons Ignatios Gorgolitsas and Bartholomeos Kosmas.

During his sermon, Metropolitan Mr. Damaskinos said the following: "We live in an era full of contrasts. An era of thousands of online "friends", but also intense loneliness. An era of easy access to knowledge, but also of flagrant semi-knowledge. An era of Artificial Intelligence dominance, but also of profound emotional immaturity. An era of securing rights and freedom in the expression of every opinion, but at the same time, of intense hatred against those who believe, express themselves...