Message of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania to the students of Primary Schools for the start of the new school yeartranslated

my dear children,

Today, the school opens its doors to you again and welcomes you with joy. Your classrooms are ready to be filled again with voices, laughter, lessons, games and new knowledge. The halls await you freshly painted and the courtyard clean, to be filled again with your voices and games.

However, in order for this new year to be beautiful, it needs something from you as well. What's up? Love your school and make it your second home!

If you decide to, every lesson, every speech of your teachers, every task, but also every game with your friends will be able to offer you something valuable: it will help you become, day by day, not only better students, but also happier people. Because it is beautiful to learn things that we did not know until yesterday.

However, there is something even more beautiful: learning how to live with others. You will meet many children in your class. They are your classmates. You will sit at the same desks, you will play together, you will laugh, you will learn new things and, little by little, you will get to know each other.

How beautiful it would be, after a while, every class...