His Beatitude Patriarch Kyrios Kyrios Theophilos III Celebrates the Doxology on the national anniversary of october 28, 1940

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On Monday, October 15/28, 2024, a doxology was held in the Catholicon Church of the Holy Sepulchre, for God’s help in liberating our nation from the German and Italian Occupation of the Second World War and as a tribute towards the fighting heroes of our Nation and a prayer for the repose of souls of all the victims of this ordeal.

The Doxology was presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Kyrios Kyrios Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, along with the Holy Sepulchre High Priests, Hieromonks, and deacons, in the prayerful participation of monks and nuns and members of the Hellenic Parish.

The Doxology was particularly honoured by the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr Dimitrios Angelosopoulos and the staff of the Greek Consulate General.

After the Doxology in the hall of the Patriarchate, His Beatitude spoke with the following address:

“Your Excellency Consul General of Greece Mr Dimitrios Angelosopoulos,

Dear Holy Fathers and Brothers,

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ,

Today’s anniversary of “No” on October 28, 1940, is a landmark not only in the history of the Greek Nation but of all the nations involved in the Second World War. The people admired the heroism of the Greeks against the strong-armed military forces of Nazism and Fascism.

October 28, 1940, was not a simple war. It was a titanic struggle and a superhuman resistance of the Greeks against the intransigent advocates of their freedom. It was a struggle of self-sacrifice in defence of national territorial integrity, independence, and the moral values of those whose generative cause is faith in the crucified and risen Christ. “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 15, 57), Saint Paul preaches.

Because of this, Our Mediocrity, accompanied by the respected and honourable members of our Venerable Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood as well as pious children of our Christian flock, went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and offered thanksgiving praise to our Holy Triune God, “who alone doeth great wonders” (Psalm 136,4) to our nation.

Moreover, we prayed for the eternal memory and blessed repose of the souls of our Fathers and brothers who fought for our faith and country and fell gloriously on the battlefields.

The epic of 1940 remains indelible in the modern history of humanity, because it demonstrated, from one point of view, the excessive size of the power of faith in God of righteousness, according to Saint John the Theologian: ” Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be” (Rev. 16, 5); on the other hand, the blasphemy of the man who was likened to the foolish beasts, according to the Prophet Isaiah: “For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up” (Is. 2, 12).

We say this because the blasphemy of Nazism and Fascism against the divine indestructible values, as well as the human person, reappears from the principalities and authorities of our era, transformed into so-called progress and liberation: “It is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness” (2 Cor. 11, 15), Saint Paul preaches…

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