In a mournful climate, but also with due splendor, on Friday night (2504,2025) at the Church of St. Dionysius Catholics in Athens the Divine Liturgy in support of his rest Pope Francis, presence of a multitude of faithful and surnames.
Both the choir and the ecclesiastical instrument, as well as the multitude that chants the hymns, add to the emotion for the death of Pope Francis. The “present” gives, inside and outside the temple, many faithful, Representatives of the country’s political world, hierarchs and clergy from other doctrines.
It is recalled that at the Church of St. Dionysius Catholics, as early as Easter Tuesday He had opened a condolence book for the public who wanted to express his regret for the existence of Pope Francis.
A few days ago, the Archbishop of the Catholics of Athens, Theodoros Kontidis, had stated that “we have a great deal of emotion in the Catholic world for the event, the death of Pope Francis, which occurs during the Easter, which also has an optimistic message.
And that’s why, “he added,” the emotion is important and we also see that many people are shared beyond the borders or boundaries of the Catholic Church.
On the other hand, it is a reason for joy and thanksgiving for what Pope Francis has done all these 12 years.
For the testimony he gave, for the example he gave, for encouragement, for the attention of ordinary and humble people or those who are oppressed or those who are at risk for various reasons.
He developed such diverse relationships with people of other peoples, other religions. He visited countries small, perhaps without much importance on the international chessboard, but he always paid attention to the young and those who for alpha or beta are in the regions, he said. It was intended that we must approach the regions, that the Church must be present in the regions. A church that is more extroverted and mostly closer to modern man.
With his own problems, whoever this modern man is, a church capable of hearing and understanding and then saying what he wants to say. But first of all he understands the man he has against her.
And this freedom he had towards wealth, glory, influence, all of which were left not only in the hearts of high, officials in the Church or Hierarchy, but also to all clergy and all the faithful.
We all have a message and an example of taking Pope Francis’ life, ”said the Archbishop of Catholics of Athens.