Patriarch Porfirije (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, delivered a message in his Christmas epistle to the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian "spiritual and national cradle," that the Church knew about their hardships and that it would always be with them.
In the epistle, which will be read out in all churches of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Christmas, Jan. 7, Patriarch Porfirije urged everyone "to adhere to the reasonable measures and recommendations" of the relevant institutions aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus, but also "reminded everybody and everyone about the need to avoid narrow-mindedness and to honor people's liberties."
"With the festive joy of Christmas Day, with true concern and responsibility, we forward fatherly blessings and prayers for our sisters and brothers in the homeland and the diaspora, wherever Orthodox Christian Serbs live, and especially to those in Kosovo and Metohija, our spiritual and national cradle," Patriarch Porfirije has stated.
The patriarch underscored that the Serbian Orthodox Church congratulated Christmas "with extraordinary respect and gratitude, to all the physicians and medical professionals, for whom it delivers prayers to the Infant Christ." "I pray for the ill to recover promptly and for the plague that has attacked the world to pass," Patriarch Porfirije has stated.
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