The Metropolitan of Austria at the celebratory Parish of Saint Paraskevi of the Passenger in Wiener Neustadttranslated

The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary Mr. Arsenios presided over the High Priestly Divine Liturgy at the celebrating Parish of Agia Paraskevi of Epivatini in Wiener Neustadt on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Synod, October 11, 2026. He was joined by the Head of the Parish Elder Marian Tosu and Deacon Iakovos Feresuaru. The Choir of Saint Nektarios of Protopsaltos sang in Byzantine, under the direction of Deacon Savinos Preda. His Eminence presented for veneration a fragment of the right hand of Saint Andrew the Apostle and Protocletos, whom the Church in Romania honors as its founder and patron saint.

In his sermon, His Holiness, interpreting the parable of the Sower, emphasized that the Lord "does not just hand us a moral teaching", but reveals to us the mystery of the meeting of the uncreated God with the created man, of divine grace with human freedom, of eternal truth with finite human existence.

The sower is Christ Himself, the pre-eternal Word of the Father, who through His incarnation enters human history, renews the worn-out nature and the...