Fthiotidas Simeon: "Illness brings us before existential questions"translated

After a serious health adventure, the Venerable Metropolitan of Fthiotida, Mr. Symeon, speaks to "Kyriakatiki A" about the "great university of illness, which reminds us of some self-evident aspects of our human condition" and above all the limits of all of us His first interview, after the happy end of a "hard" test of his health, is granted to "Sunday Afternoon" by the most respected Metropolitan of Fthiotida, Symeon. The deeply spiritual hierarch of the Church conveys to us the message of joy and hope and reminds us of the always limited and perishable limits of our human condition.

Reverend, I happened to listen to a Sunday sermon of yours, before the difficult surgical operation, to which you underwent, and you had mentioned then that "sickness is the greatest university of life, because with sickness we learn what man is." Can you explain your thinking to us?

The great university of disease reminds us of some self-evident aspects of our human condition. We are not as strong, strong and powerful as we often think, but we are weak, vulnerable, susceptible people, with huge...