With the resounding... absence of the Potamos Philharmonic Orchestra, due to the coronavirus, today, on Friday of the Feast of the Diaconia and the Feast of the Life-Giving Spring, the celebration of the celebration of the icon of Myrtidiotissa.
Solemn Divine Liturgy in Potamos
With a solemn Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of Hilarion, in Potamos, presided by the Bishop of Kythera and Antikythera, Mr.Seraphim, the feast of Zoodochos Pigi was celebrated, which is celebrated on the Friday of Diaconia, i.e. the week following the Holy Easter.
The divine service was attended by, as we read in the relevant report by Adelin FM, the mayor of Kythera and Antikythera, Efstratios Harchalakis, deputy mayors, councillors, as well as the headmistress of the Lyceum.
Refusal to enter the Nursing Home and reaction of the Metropolitan
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the celebration of the Holy Icon began. Tension was created, according to the report of Adelin FM, at the first stop of the procession, at the Old People's Home, where the management, citing the measures against the coronavirus, refused the entry of the icon, both inside the building and in the courtyard, with the reaction of the Metropolitan being immediate. «Be well, God forgive you,» the pastor exclaimed, with the incident not taking any further proportions.
In the hospital with a vehicle of the Home
The last stop of the day for the holy icon was the Kythera Hospital, “Trifyllion”, where it was transported in a cube, on a vehicle of the Kythera - Antikythera Property Committee.
