After nearly two years of Church closures and lockdowns, the bells at St Athanasios Springvale tolled joyfully as Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis presided over the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, March 13, 2022, to celebrate Sunday of Orthodoxy.
At the conclusion of the service, icons were carried in a procession around the church of St Athanasios commemorating the victory of icons, because “he who venerates the icon, venerates in it the reality for which it stands” – holiness and the reality of deification.
Upon the completion of the Litany, the Bishop conveyed the Blessings of Archbishop Makarios of Australia and thanked Fr Eustathios Laddas and Fr John Frangos for their warm welcome to the Parish.