Met Seraphim of Kythera: Pandemic cannot be overcome by closing churches
Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira. Photo: pentapostagma.gr
Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythera and Antikythera of the Greek Orthodox Church said that the coronavirus pandemic cannot be overcome by closing churches, reports the Greek resource “Romfea”.
During a sermon at the Church of the Mother of God in Myrtidiotissa, Metropolitan Seraphim noted that “just as we do not close hospitals and sanatoriums, we must not close churches. Indeed, who has calculated the spiritual damage that believers endure when they live outside the Divine Eucharist? Who can rate this?"
“This ordeal cannot be overcome if we go in this unorthodox way, closing the churches and waiting for things to change. That is why we appeal to all those in charge and the Holy Synod to speed up the procedures so that the Temples of God to operate with certain measures that can be taken."
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that according to Metropolitan Seraphim, the COVID epidemic has intensified due to the closure of churches.
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