The sermon is a call for repentance and commitment to the cross of Christ, by which the Church has always constituted and reconstituted its communities. This constitutive moment of the Eucharistic assembly and of the life of the Church in general has today fallen into complete disrepute in Greece, as evidenced by the very use of the word in everyday speech.

The sermon in the Greek Orthodox Church, as an act and theory, is almost back to square one. The void is indeed enormous, and this current edition certainly does not aim to fill it, but rather has the opposite ambition, to make it more intense and dramatic.

The present Sunday Sermon consists of written sermons (that is, sermons that have not been delivered before a specific community) by professors of the History and Interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, almost entirely from our Theological Schools. This endeavor by Artos Zois to publish, for the first time in our country, a Sunday Sermon by biblical professors will find its justification if it simply manages to contribute to a discussion about the significance, form, and content of the sermon in today's society.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]