Agios Siluanos Parish Festival in Brusselstranslated

On Sunday, September 27, 2026, His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium, Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, presided over the solemn Divine Liturgy in the Parish of Saints Siluanus the Athonite and Bishop Martin of Tours in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), co-celebrated by the priests of the Parish, Fr. Laurent Van Damme and Georgiou Lekkas, as well as Archimandrite Father Dimitrios Salonikidis, professor at the European School in Uccle, Protopresbyter Konstantinos Kenanidis, Director of the Orthodox Theological Institute "Apostolos Pavlos", Archdeacon Panteleimon Bakalis and Deacon Cristian Moisa, from the Parish of Agios Fokas in Tournai. The parish choir sang in the lectern.

In his sermon after the Gospel reading, His Holiness referred to the Gospel passage of the miraculous fishing (Luke 5, 1-11). Focus especially on the words that Christ addressed to Simon Peter: "Put out into the deep waters and let down your nets to fish." His Holiness emphasized that these words of Christ remain, even today, as an invitation addressed to every Christian and every church community. Christ calls His disciples to…