13th Pan-Orthodox Youth Meeting in Viennatranslated

The 13th Pan-Orthodox Youth Meeting in Austria took place in Vienna on Saturday, October 10, 2026, with the theme "The Mysteries - our path to sanctification". The meeting, following the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary Mr. Arsenios, President of the Orthodox Episcopal Assembly of Austria, was organized by the Orthodox School Service with the Inspectors of the course of the Orthodox Religious Archimandrites Ilias Papadopoulos and Branislav Djukarić, Protopresbyter Emanuel Nutu, head of the volunteer organizing committee, and the teachers of the Orthodox Religious course. The day began with the Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated by clergy of the Orthodox Church in Austria in the Holy Church on Kaiserstraße. In his sermon, His Holiness emphasized that "sanctification is not an escape from life. It means living life with Christ."

Referring to the Mysteries of Baptism, Confession, Eucharist and Marriage, he reminded the young people that their value does not depend on success, that "we are not our mistakes" and that "Christ does not wait for us to be perfect first in order to approach Him".

Then the young…