Archbishop Makarios honours ANZAC sacrifice and urges reflection on war and injustice

Archbishop Makarios of Australia has delivered a connection for ANZAC Day, urging reflection connected the enduring values of sacrifice, unity and quality dignity astatine a clip when struggle and injustice persist globally.

In a statement released by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, His Eminence highlighted the heavy humanities ties betwixt Greece and Australia, forged done shared struggles and strengthened by the sacrifices of the ANZACs. He besides called connected the faithful and the wider assemblage to honour their bequest not lone successful remembrance, but done a renewed committedness to compassion, justness and bid successful today’s world.

The Archbishops afloat statement:

Each year connected the 25th of April year, Australia honours the men and women who, answering the telephone of work strove with courageousness and steadfast devotion to the highest ideals, counting neither idiosyncratic outgo nor adjacent their very lives.

For us Greeks successful particular, ANZAC Day moves us deeply, arsenic it reminds us of the bonds of humor that link our motherland, Greece, with our 2nd homeland, Australia. These are

bonds forged done communal struggles and sacrifices during the past century, with the decisive publication of the heroic ANZACs.

We retrieve with feelings of gratitude the brave men and women who, acold from their ain land, their homes, and their loved ones, selflessly defended the universal values of quality dignity, freedom, and justice. Many of them ne'er returned to the Fifth Continent, but prevarication astatine remainder successful the lands of Lemnos, Crete, and mainland Greece successful places which, thanks to their sacrifice, person been transformed into monuments of solidarity and selfless struggle for what is bully and just.

In our ain day, arsenic the cries of war are still heard successful galore corners of the world, and arsenic violence, injustice, and the violation of quality dignity persist arsenic achy realities, the representation of the ANZACs and their sacrifice summons us not to turn our regard distant from the suffering of our neighbour, nor to licence evil and injustice to prevail.

Let us truly honour the ANZACs by making the ideals for which they struggled, and adjacent gave their lives, the compass of our lives. Let us amusement successful deed that we bash not hide them, and that we ne'er will!