IN Constantinople since yesterday about Archbishop of America Elpidophorosto attend its meetings Sacred and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchateof which he is a member.

Today Mr. Archbishop of America took part in a brilliant Patriarchal and Synodal Seminar, which was also attended by the new Archbishop of Cyprus, George, who has been making a peaceful visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate since Friday. The Minister of Foreign Affairs also visited the collector, Nikos Dendiaswho represented the Greek government.

As Archbishop Elpidophoros noted in a social media post, “it is a special privilege and honor to celebrate the Week of Orthodoxy in the holy center of our faith.” “We all must,” he noted, “always keep unchanged the faith that was transmitted to our saints, the faith that created the world.”

Meanwhile, yesterday at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York, a memorial service was held for the dead victims of the railway tragedy in Tempe.

In his message, the Archbishop of America, mentioning that “Tr.many words are not needed in such a sacred and sad moment“, he points out that “he prays for the repose of the souls of our brothers who died so unjustly, and for consolation from above for their relatives, friends and loved ones. this is about unspeakable tragedy which causes us to spontaneous and insoluble question “why”, a tragedy that puts our faith and our hope to the test. After all, how not to mourn and mourn the untimely loss of all these people, especially young children, students and pupils, who set off on their way back to their homes and instead suddenly found themselves in their last home; How can you comfort the relatives of the dead, who suddenly lost forever their beloved children, parents, friends, brothers and sisters, spouses and entire families?

The human mind stops before the desert of death and silence, waiting for an answer to this insistent “why”. Today is a day of immense sorrow and sincere reflection in the face of a tragic accident caused, on the one hand, by the human factor, and, on the other hand, by the negligence and indifference shown to the issue of the necessary modernization of the railway infrastructure. and system network,” he added.

Source: RES-IPE