Easter concert in St. Sava Cathedral

Easter Liturgy in imperial Prizren

His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren served the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral church of St. George in Prizren.

Patriarch Irinej serves on Easter at Cathedral Church in Belgrade

President Boris Tadic attends midnight Easter Liturgy at St. Sava Cathedral on Vracar

Patriachal Paschal Encyclical 2011

The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2011

I R I N E J

By the grace of God
Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with the 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!
INDEED HE IS RISEN!

“Christ is risen!
He has destroyed death,
Bringing eternal life”!

Greeting you, dear brothers and sisters, with these words of eternal joy, in their light and immortal meaning, we, your hierarchs, witness before you and all people the great and holy truth of our Christian faith and our Orthodox Church. Enlightened by the light of Christ’s resurrection, we learn that on earth there are only two kinds of people, two kinds of faithful: those that believe in eternal life and who live by it and for it; and the other kind, those who worship death and nothingness. Every one of us, every day, every moment of our earthly life, should ask himself: to which of these two groups do I belong, to what kind of people do I belong? Do I belong to those who have recognized that they are eternal and immortal beings, or do I belong to those who believe that death and nothingness are their beginning and end, ultimately consuming all beings and all things? Am I in the community of salvation with those who already here on earth live with and for eternal life; or am I in that sad company of those ruled by death? That is why, among other things, such people restlessly hold on to transient life, worshipping – publicly and secretly – death and ephemeral matters…

Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday in Kuwait

With Mercy of God, by the invitation of Metropolitan Constantine of the Patriarchate of Antioch and with the blessing of Serbian Patriarch Irinej and Bishop Milutin of Valjevo, father Radomir Aleksic, priest of the Diocese of Valjevo, was in Kuwait on Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday. This visit pleased all the Serbs who live and work in Kuwait as well as many Russians and Ukrainians.