As we prepare to conclude this Ecclesiastical Year, it only fitting that I am blessed to share with all our Reverend Clergy & Metropolis Faithful, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's message for the Feast of the Indiction, which marks the start of the New Ecclesiastical Year, tomorrow, September 1st.
It is with great joy that I introduce to you a new catechetical resource of our Holy Metropolis of Atlanta, The Catechism: An Introduction to the Orthodox Faith in Fifteen Lessons.
With the blessings of our Hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos, 20 diaconate candidates, seminarians, and deacons from the Metropolis of Atlanta traveled to Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, this summer for a week of prayerful liturgical formation. They were joined by more than 60 candidates from across the Archdiocese, creating a collaborative environment of learning and fellowship rooted in the spirit of Metropolitan Sevastianos’s vision for a well-formed diaconate serving the parishes of our Metropolis and Archdiocese.