{"id":140627,"date":"2016-12-25T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=140627"},"modified":"2016-12-27T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T08:17:37","slug":"%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c-%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%86%d1%81-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bb-%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b6%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2016\/12\/25\/news140627\/","title":{"rendered":"DECR chairman sends Christmas greeting to the heads of non-Orthodox Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, sent Christmas greeting to Pope Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strom, chairman of the Council of the EKD, and heads of other non-Orthodox Churches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The text is given below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>On this radiant grace-filled night God the Word, who is in the bosom of the Father, \u201cwas made flesh\u201d (Jn 1:14) for our salvation. As St. Gregory of Neocaesarea says, \u201cToday he who sits on the throne of heaven in glory rests in a manger amidst dumb animals out of love for humans&#8230; in order to vanquish the burdens of the sinners and the unrighteous, and loosen their bonds\u201d (Homily for the Nativity of Christ, 12).<\/p>\n<p>In our time when \u201ctroubles are enlarged\u201d (Ps 24:17) and the earth once more has been filled with \u201cbloody crimes\u201d (Ezek 7:23), it is especially important for humanity to turn to its Saviour, for he alone has the power to grant consolation to suffering souls.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you good health and God&#8217;s gracious aid in your lofty ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>+Hilarion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Metropolitan of Volokolamsk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Chairman <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Department for External Church Relations <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Moscow Patriarchate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, sent Christmas greeting to Pope Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strom, chairman of the Council of the EKD, and heads of other non-Orthodox Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":103064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1,2,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}