The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos, spoke at the PSAT awards, as he took the podium to award Thanasis Gavelas with the title of the top athlete with a disability.
The Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Ieronymos, attended the brilliant celebration of PSAT and awarded the Thanasis Gavela with the title of the top athlete with a disability.
In his speech he talked about the struggles of life, stressing how important it is that one complements the other.
What he said in detail:
“I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity you have given me, to invite me to this moving event, but also an opportunity for reflection.
I was given the opportunity to delve more into the concept of struggle and struggle and to congratulate those people who learned under different circumstances to struggle each in their own way.
The life of the church constantly speaks of struggles and if we want to make a more detailed examination, it does not speak in the indefinite tense, but in the present tense. You fight, I fight and real fight means continuous.
You can feel this when you see the cross country, the struggles of these people, whether they are gymnasts, teachers, assistants, or they are fighters themselves. It has no breaks, no long periods of rest, but it is a continuum.
And these people are charismatic, whom we applauded and praised tonight, but we should know that each of us, whether we like it or not, is a fighter. Young, old, with interests, without interests, but he is a fighter of life.
I would like to wish, because I believe that every person, the serious one, is a fighter, and that we all want to fight and the fight brings victory, small or big.
We live in a beautiful age with its own problems, with its own difficulties, an age that requires not struggle, but struggles. Multifaceted, dangerous, but necessary games.
And when we compete, we see it on the field. In all these competitions, one does not compete alone, one needs a partner, one needs another to compete with. That’s what we’re missing today.
We need it very much and there must be competition either in here, around us, or everywhere, one complementing the other to feel the joy that we felt here tonight and especially these children who when I talk to them I say yes, I share your problem, but together we can fill in, because we all have gaps, and one needs to fill in the other in this life
I wish you a Merry Christmas.”
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