by Romfea.news
Metropolitan Ignatios of Demetrias served at the Holy Temple of Saints Constantine and Helen at Volos on Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, the Third Sunday of Lent.
In his sermon, Ignatios stressed that “Christ is identified with the Cross. He Himself wanted to reach the ultimate point of human humiliation, the natural death and indeed, in the most dishonest way of that era. This was the way to abolish Hades and reopen the road to Paradise. He climbed on the Cross for our salvation…”
Ignatios also pointed out that “the Lord is calling on us today to lift our own cross. We are called to crucify ourselves for the other, the one on whose face Christ told us that we will see Him. Sometimes this other one is unfair to us, hurts us, does not forgive us, and yet we must march with him to forgive, to sympathize, to show solidarity. This is our cross. So, we understood that venerating the Cross is easy, but its imitation is difficult…”