Message of His Eminence Metropolitan Aetolia and Acarnania and Damascenes for Sunday, October 4, 2026translated

My beloved Fathers and Brothers,

My beloved children in the Lord,

It is a common opinion that the way of life proposed by the Church is "unrealistic". There are not a few of those who listen with a good mood to the exhortations of the Gospel and admit how, if they were applied, human society could be transformed into "paradise" on earth. At the same time, however, they are convinced that everyday life imposes other rules of living and that the teachings of the Gospel cannot be applied. In order to survive, they believe that he is obliged to follow the ethics that have already been shaped by the economic and social system in which we live.

One of the basic characteristics of human society is the management of wealth. Man's struggle is related to survival and securing sustenance for himself and his family. However, the acquisition of the means of survival is often not enough. Within human nature is the desire to accumulate wealth greater than the necessities of life. This accumulation can become insatiable and turn from a means of ensuring survival into...