"DIMITRIA 2026" 2nd day - Fr Nikon Agioreitistranslated

On Monday, September 28, after the celebration of vespers and the holy supplication to Basil the Great and Saint Demetrius the Myroblytis in the Holy Church of Saint Demetrius in the Municipality of Saint Demetrius, a speech by the Pantheological Hieromonk Fr. The speaker unfolded the great mystery of the human heart and the inscrutable logic of God. As he emphasized, the opinion we form of our fellow human beings, based solely on external and superficial intercourse, is incomplete. "The heart is deeper than anything and is a man and he knows it?", he emphasized, borrowing the apocalyptic speech of the Prophet Jeremiah, to show that the depth of every person remains unreachable. In fact, many saints remained unknown, precisely because God wanted, in His own wisdom, to keep them in obscurity.

The speaker noted that in reality we do not know who is next to us, citing St. Theodora of Alexandria as an example. The Saint lived secretly as the monk Theodore, enduring unrepentantly and unapologetically the heavy slander of a moral fall, as a result of which her sainthood...