Patriarch Porfirije served in Saint Sava Cathedral church on Easter Monday

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in Saint Sava Cathedral church in Vracar, Belgrade on 25 April 2022, on Easter Monday. 

The Patriarch was concelebrated by His Grace Bishop kyr Stefan of Remesiana, archpriests Dragan Šovljanski and Ivan Štrbački, presbyters Branislav Kličković and Dalibor Stojadinović, protodeacons Mladen Kovačević, Dragan Radić and Radomir Vrućinić and deacon Siniša Duvnjak (photo gallery).

Patriarch Porfirije: All people are invited to praise the Lord

On the feast day of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 24 April 2022, His Holiness Kyra Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch served the solemn Paschal Vesper service in Saint Sava Cathedral in Vračar, Belgrade.

The Patriarch was concelebrated by Their Graces Bishops Stefan of Remesiana and Sava of Marča, archimandrite Nektarije, protosynchellos Danilo, archpriests Vitaly Tarasyev, Nenad Jovanović and Branislav Kličkovič, presbyters Panayotis Karastasios, Miroslav Čolaković, Ivan Štrbački and Dalibor Stojadinović, protodeacons Mladen Kovačević and Radomir Vrućinić, as well as deacons Vladan Tatalović and Đorđe Petrović.

Patriarch Porfirije: We celebrate the Pascha of the Lord, and that means our Pascha. The resurrection of Christ from the dead and in Him our resurrection

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch served the Easter Liturgy at midnight in the Cathedral church of Saint Sava in Vračar, Belgrade (photo gallery).

The Patriarch was concelebrated by His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Archimandrite Nektarije, protosynchelloi Danilo and Nektarije, protopresbyter-staurophors Vladimir Vukašinović and Stojadin Pavlović, archpriests Zoran Ranković, Dragan Šovljanski, Predrag Prodić and Đorđe Stojisavljević, synchellos Stojisavljević, synchellos Andronik Dunaev from the Russian Orthodox Church, presbyters Zoran Devrnja and Branislav Kedžić, protodeacons Mladen Kovačević, Dragan Radić and Radomir Vrućinić and deacon Đorđe Petrović. 

Patriarch Porfirije: The Resurrected Lord reveals that the last word in our life and history is love, because He is love!

Also this year His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, spent the happiest feast day, Easter, with the homeless, with whom he had lunch together in a soup kitchen run by the Serbian Orthodox Church. At the festive table set in the yard of the Faith Charitable Guardianship, His Holiness the Patriarch and famous Serbian artists talked with our most endangered fellow citizens.

Patriarch Porfirije served Matin of Holy Saturday

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Matin of Great Saturday at the  Saint Sava Cathedral Church in Vračar, Belgrade.

In the prayerful presence of His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, the brotherhood of the church concelebrated to the Patriarch. The service commenced with the Little Vesper  with the Canon to the Crucified Christ, also known as The Lamentation of the Mother of God. Following that the Matin of Great Saturday was served. Afterwards, the Patriarch led a procession with the Shroud around the Church and read a passage from the Gosperl of Matthew.

Paschal Encyclical of the Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2022

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By the Grace of God
Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with the joyous Paschal greeting:

CHRIST IS RISEN!

This is the day which the Lord has made;
Let us greatly rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalm 117:24
 

Our dear spiritual children,

With these words from the Old Testament days, the king and prophet David enthusiastically cried out, foreseeing by the Holy Spirit the great day of Christ's victory over death and our spiritual celebration because of that. On this great and mysterious Day all creation is bathed in the light of eternity and with unspeakable joy sings the song of victory to the Lord who banished the darkness of sin and illumined us with the unfading rays of life. "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it," (St. John 1:5) - so the essence of divine revelation and our Christian testimony was summed up by the Holy Apostle, Evangelist and Theologian John who during the Mystical Supper rested his head upon Lord’s bosom and took in all the power, beauty and mystery of His life-giving Being as the God-Man.