The Archbishop of Greece, Ieronymos to his letter to the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Lucas Papademos underscores Greece’s serious situation, pointing out that coutry’s drama is goind to develop.   

Dear Prime Minister,

My heart breaks and my mind blurs with everything that has been happening the last few months in our homeland. Proud people are losing their jobs suddenly, even their homes.

The phenomenon of homeless people and hungry- a phenomenon during the occupation era- has been taking extreme dimensions. The unemployed people increase by thousands day by day. Small and medium businesses are shutting down. The young generation and some of our more promising minds are led to the path of immigration. Our fathers cannot survive after the extreme cuts on the retirement. Family men and especially those of the lower classes, those with many children and those who live on minimum wages are in desperation after the wage cuts and the new heavy taxations.  The famous Greek patience has been now extinguished and the anger put asides the fear and it’s becoming obvious that the danger of a social uprising cannot be ignored; not from those who rule, nor from those who execute their murdering recipes.

In this difficult and undeniably hard times, we all have the obligation to know and understand what does it mean for the Greek homes to live in fear, in insecurity, desperation and depression, which in some cases results even in suicides of those who couldn’t handle the drama of their families and the pain of their children.

 

In the face of all these developments, the Church of Greece explores every chance of support. It’s very positive that in this atmosphere of haze, we see sensitivity, pride, and pure patriotism from the Greeks who give food, clothes and a relief in the lives of those who are driven to desperation.
But unfortunately, our homeland’s drama not only is not finished here, but is clearly going to develop to more extreme and uncontrollable dimensions.

 

In these hard times they are about to take even more austere and unfair measures to the dead end and failed programs of our recent past.

They are about to take more doses of this deadly medicine.

They are about to bound us into programs that are not solving the problem but just postpone the already announced death of our economy.

And at the same time they mortgage our national sovereignty.

They mortgage our national wealth and the wealth we could gain in our lands and seas.

They mortgage our freedom, our democracy and national pride.

Disappointed, desperate and worried Greeks are asking us and demand responsible, honest and convincing answers.

 

They are asking what the next day will be like
They are asking where is our homeland heading.

 

They are asking when this drama is going to stop.

What can bring back to live our lost hopes…

But unfortunately…

In the decision making, the voices of the desperate, the voices of the Greeks are defiantly ignored.

Unfortunately today Greeks cannot find answer to anything that happened, the things that keep happening and the things that are asked by the foreigners. It’s even suspicious their persistence in failed recipes and programs.  And their requests against our national sovereignty is provocative.

And that’s even more worrying.

Nobody can ignore after all that the patience of the people around us has been reaching the end. The same way our economy has been falling apart.

And of course, it can only be valid that we have other paths.

Paths for a spiritual and financial awakening.

Paths for creativity, hope and prospects.

Paths open to every Greek woman and man.

These paths we have the obligation to follow with a sense of repentance.

With the endless power of our nation.

Spurning at the same time the blackmails from the outside and rejecting their deadly programs.

By having, above all, an unbreakable belief that with God’s help and our belief in our capabilities we can make it.

The Greece of civilization, the Greece of history, the Greece of traditions cannot be lost nor because some believed it can happen, nor because some want it to happen. Our Greece can stand in its feet again. It can again go ahead.

Dear Prime Minister,

That’s the path the Greeks have been expecting and looking for.