Sunday Divine Liturgy-Handing of the Readertranslated

In the Cemetery I. Church of St. Georgiou of Astrika Parish, of the Eastern Archpriestly Region of Kissamos, Rev. Our Pastor, Mr. Amfilochios, appointing, before the Apostolic Reading, Mr. Ioannis Tsilimigakis, a venerable youth of our place, as Reader. As our Bishop noted, "Ordination as a Reader is the first spiritual step of a lay member into the interior of the Church, as this person, with the wish and blessing of the Church, serves more fully in the holy Rectory. We considered it appropriate to proceed today with the ordination of a venerable young man from our place as a Reader, following the suggestion of the High Priestly Commissioner of Eastern Kissamos, Rev. Prot. Fr. Georgiou Spanoudakis, of our beloved Ioannou Tsilimigakis, who is distinguished by his piety, his conscious holy zeal for the faith of our Fathers, his selfless service to the holy Analogy and his humble attitude."

In his speech, our Bishop referred to the call-invitation of the first disciples of our Lord, according to what the Evangelist Luke describes in the Gospel reading of the day, noting: "The same invitation that Christ addressed to us...