UMetropolitan Cyril waseRhodes useyalele zonke izigodi zakulesi siqhingi ukuthi zinikeze indawo yokukhosela labo ababalekela ukusha kwehlathi osekunesikhathi esingaphezu kwesonto kuqubuka kulesi siqhingi.
ONgangezwe Lakhe uhlezi exhumana nabefundisi, njengoba ekhiphe umyalelo wokuthi kuhlinzekwe amagumbi aneziphephetha-moya kulabo abakhahlanyezwe umlilo. I-Greece ithathe izinyathelo ezibanzi kakhulu zokususa isizinda senhlekelele eqhubekayo. Abezicishamlilo baseGreece bathi abantu abangu-19,000, ikakhulukazi izivakashi, bathuthelwe ezindaweni zokukhosela esiqhingini noma ngaphandle kwaso.
UMetropolitan Kirill usevele wavakashela izindela namasonto amaningana, futhi waba nethuba lokukhuluma nezindela ezasala lapho umlilo ubhebhetheka ezindaweni ezizungeze izindela zabo ukusiza abacimi bomlilo namavolontiya ngangokunokwenzeka.
Naphezu kwemizamo emihle ka-Abbess Mariam kanye nodade, okungenani isigodlo esisodwa sezindela - iPanagia Ipseni eLardos - salimala kakhulu. Izindela kanye nethimba labacimi bomlilo baphoqeleka ukuthi baphephele endaweni engaphansi komhlaba esigodlweni sezindela.
Imilayezo yokusekelwa ngomkhuleko yatheleka ivela kuwo wonke umhlaba wama-Orthodox, okuhlanganisa uPatriarch Bartholomew waseConstantinople, uMbhishobhi Omkhulu uMakarios wase-Australia kanye neNhlangano Yabapristi BamaGreki.
“Izinhliziyo zethu zibuhlungu njengoba sibuka izithombe zencithakalo yomlilo oqhubekayo ezweni lakithi esilithandayo futhi ikakhulukazi esiqhingini esihluphekayo saseRhodes,” kusho umbhishobhi omkhulu wase-Australia.
“Ubuhlungu bethu budanjiswa ukuthi akukho muntu oshonile, naphezu kwenhlekelele eqhubekayo,” kunezela umfundisi.
Umthombo: theparadise.ng
Isithombe ngu-Ivan Dražić: https://www.pexels.com/photo/medieval-clock-tower-in-rhodes-greece-14445916/
