St. Matthew's Sunday in I. M. Etoloakarnaniatranslated

At the Holy Church of Agia Kyriaki in the local Community of Kastraki, Aetoloakarnania, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damaskinos, officiated at the Order of the Orthros and presided over the High Priestly Divine Liturgy on Sunday, July 12, 2026. Preaching the divine word, His Holiness continued the series of his Sunday sermons, in which he analyzes the Holy Mystery of the Holy Eucharist.

He stated the following: "Both the Apostolic and the Gospel passages today have three common characteristics: resurrection, regeneration and transformation. These three words essentially denote the same event: the restoration of man to "by nature", but also to the prophetic perspective of his existence, which is none other than the entry into the Heavenly Kingdom.

In the Gospel passage, from the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, a paralyzed man, who does not even have the strength to pray to Christ for his healing, is lying before Him. His condition is tragic. But we, in his person, recognize the weakness, the exhaustion and the bankruptcy of our own world, which is dragged by...