Dimitriados Ignatios: "Prayer is an attitude of humility, peace and real freedom"translated

At the Holy Church of Agios Athanasios Ano Lechonia, on Tuesday, August 11, Rev. Metropolitan of Dimitrias and Almyros Mr. Ignatios, during the Mass of the Holy Prayer in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos. After the end of the Mass, a cultural event of speech and music took place in the courtyard of the Holy Church, in the context of the "August Prayers", which are organized by the Cultural Body of the Holy Metropolis of Dimitrias and Almyros "Magneton Kivotos, for the rescue of the cultural stock".

The Metropolitan of Dimitrias, Mr. Ignatios, emphasized that "there is an icon, in which the Virgin Mary is not with Christ, but alone, with her hands in a position of supplication, prayer, facing where our Lord Jesus Christ is definitely. It is the well-known icon of Deesis, the Virgin Mary, found in the catacombs of Rome. And we come to the churches to pray to the Virgin Mary and to pray for us to our Lord".

And he added: "We humans have three positions with our hands. One attitude is to give up, when we give up, when we despair and lose our courage, we come to…