BISHOP OF CORFU, MR. NEKTARIOS: “THERE IS ALSO THE VIRUS OF HYPOCRISY IN OUR TIMES”
On the morning of Sunday, August 30, 2020, His Eminence the Bishop of Corfu, Paxos and the Diapontian Islands, Mr. Nektarios, was found and operated on the morning of Sunday, August 30, 2020, on the northwestern border of Greece, which is the island of Othonoi, one of the Diapontia Islands.
Mr. Nektarios, speaking to the faithful, stressed that he visited the island and worked for the Akriti residents who guard the borders of our homeland with heroism but also with the testimony of patriots, not leaving their ancestral homes. His sermon during the Divine Liturgy was triggered by the Gospel reading, in which a young man wanted to claim the kingdom of heaven with completely external and superficial criteria and not the quintessence of the dedication that our Lord asks of each of us in order to be partakers of it. donation of God. He judged himself and left, insisting on his earthly and temporary liking.
Essentially the young man’s attitude towards our Lord was hypocritical! Such an attitude is convenient for modern man, but also for the world community that while being cut for the love of man with emphasis on his health and takes draconian measures in order to preserve it, often depriving the precious good of freedom that God has given to man and is a feature of his divine origin, he maintains an acting attitude. Every day 7000 children are killed by another virus called hunger and poverty. The vaccine for this virus is called food and food, and yet the world community does not care, because it does not kill the tycoons of the earth !!! This same hypocrisy of the view of life based on interest and external, superficial criteria is the same hypocrisy of the new evangelical reading.
Let us not remain indifferent to the modern phenomena of hypocrisy and let us take courage from the Hope of our life which is our Saviour Jesus Christ.
