Christmas Eve at Alexander Nevsky church
7. January 2013 - 11:56
In the evening of the joyful feast day of the Nativity of the Lord, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the vesper service at the church of Alexander Nevsky. After the blessing and burning the badnjak (Yule log), Patriarch Irinej served the feast day's great vesper service and gave Christmas gifts to children. Belgrade's Mayor Dragan Djilas was present at the service.
Christmas Eve in Cathedral Church of Saint Sava on Vracar
7. January 2013 - 1:00
Pious people of the Serbian capital gathered this evening in front of the Cathedral Church on Vracar, where His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, Vicar of Serbian Patriarch, blessed and burned badnjaks (Yule logs). Across the Saint Sava's plateau the Christmas troparion could be heard: Thy nativity, O Christ our God...
Serbian Patriarch celebrates Divine Liturgy on Pasino Brdo
6. January 2013 - 23:56
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated today, on Christmas Eve which is also this year the Serbian Father's Day, the Divine Liturgy in the church of Holy Trinity on Pasino Brdo in Belgrade.
Nativity Message of His Grace Bishop Mitrophan of Eastern America
10. January 2013 - 12:19
“But when the fullness of the time had come,
God sent forth His Son, born of a woman,
born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
(Gal. 4:4-5)
Dear brothers and sisters,
According to His eternal foreknowledge God determined the time when He will send His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to save us and bless us with every heavenly blessing. And not only this, but to adopt us as sons through Him (Eph. 1:3-5).
