The Metropolitan of Seleucia in the celebratory I.M. Dionysios Mount Athostranslated

As part of his visit to the celebratory Holy Patriarchal and Crucifixion Monastery of Dionysius of Mount Athos, on July 7, 2026, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Seleucia, Mr. Theodoros, addressed the monastery bench. Below is the address:

By the divine grace and favor of the Trisagio God, standing before you today on this glorious day, I am overwhelmed by a flood of feelings of holy emotion and unspeakable spiritual joy, as consciousnesses of this holy and spiritual bliss. This joy does not only come from participating in a glorious festival, but primarily from the awareness that we are in the enclosure of the Virgin Mary, in this holy refuge of prayer, repentance and freedom in Christ.

First of all, I gratefully thank the venerated Authority and Despot of us all, His Holiness, our Ecumenical Patriarch, etc. Bartholomew, the Pastor of the Holy Land, for the canonical permission and blessing to participate, after the equally honorable invitation, Holy Professors, in the inner festivals, of Whom the whole-hearted paternal wishes, the urgent care, deeply…