Metropolitan Hilarion meets with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens

Source: DECR Communications Service

December 18, 2015

    

On 17 December 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, who had arrived in Athens with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to take part in a session of the Special Inter-Orthodox Committee for the Preparation of the Pan-Orthodox Council, met with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece.

The participants in the meeting, which was held at the premises of the Archdiocese of Athens, discussed various issues on the pan-Orthodox agenda.

Among those who took part in the meeting were also archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR vice-chairman, and Rev. Anatoly Churyakov, DECR staff member, who are accompanying Metropolitan Hilarion on his visit to Athens.

DECR Communication Service

12/18/2015

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Metropolitan Hilarion also spoke about praying and fasting as simple rules that the Lord has given us. “We should begin each day with prayer and finish it with prayer. We should pray to God for His blessing before each task we are to accomplish, and in each of our steps we should be guided by the will of God… It is through prayer and fasting that our faith is expressed and through it the Lord prepares our souls for accepting His grace”.
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