Corfu Nektarios: The Christian is called to remain uninfluenced by worldly thinkingtranslated

An evening service was held at the camps of the Diocese of Corfu in Kassiopi, on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, as part of the program for high school girls. The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxos and Diapontian Islands Mr. Nektarios participated in the service by singing and speaking. In the morning of the same day, the girls had prepared a suitable meal, so that they could participate in the preparation of the liturgy, while confession followed. The divine service was held for the feast of Saint Panteleimon.

The Metropolitan of Corfu, with special joy, came to visit the children and sang with them. After the gospel reading, he addressed the executives and the campers with a fatherly address, expressing his joy that the children, by default, are celebrating the memory of Saint Panteleimon the healer and silversmith, a Saint who showed in his time that the Christian is called to have endurance and inner strength and to remain unaffected by worldly opinion. This is what the apostolic reading of the feast states, from the second letter to Timothy of the apostle Paul, where the apostle of the nations exhorts his disciple to proclaim the irreconcilability of...