{"id":14847,"date":"2010-03-21T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mospat.ru\/2010\/03\/21\/news14847\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:13:58","slug":"patriarshee-pozdravlenie-mitropolitu-minskomu-filaretu-s-75-letiem-so-dnya-rozhdeniya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2010\/03\/21\/news14847\/","title":{"rendered":"His Holiness Patriarch Kirill congratulates Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk on his 75th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On 21 March 2010, after the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow  and All Russia congratulated Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk,  Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, on his 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday and  read out the following congratulatory address.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To  His Eminence Philaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patriarch  Exarch of All Belarus, permanent member of the Holy Synod of the  Russian Orthodox Church<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your Eminence, beloved in the  Lord Vladyka:<\/p>\n<p>I cordially greet you on the day of your 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday and wholeheartedly congratulate you on this remarkable  jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>You have begun your ministry to God and people at a time  when our Church was fulfilling its salutary mission under difficult  historical conditions. However, the Lord was granting wisdom, courage,  and strength to you to show an example of faithfulness to the chosen  path in life and your calling in all trials.<\/p>\n<p>You have loved the  splendour of God&#8217;s churches and the beauty of the Orthodox divine  service from your childhood. Having seen your ardent faith and sincere  wish to serve the Church, the Lord brought you to the Moscow Theological  schools, where you received theological education and took your  monastic vows. Your have stood at the Holy Altar for over half a century  bringing the bloodless sacrifice of thanksgiving to God &#8220;for all and  for everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You are fulfilling your archpastoral ministry  with piety and awe, caring for ordering the ecclesiastical life of the  Exarchate and preaching tirelessly. You are bearing a convincing  testimony to the eternal Gospel truths, bringing a considerable  contribution to the consolidation of Orthodox unity. You are calling  people to live in accordance with the commandments of Christ the  Saviour, to vivid and active faith, to unshakeable hope, and sincere  love.<\/p>\n<p>You are exerting a lot of efforts to develop a fruitful  cooperation of the Church with the secular leaders of Belarus, with  scientists, and workers of culture and education, with representatives  of charities and public organizations. You are doing all these and many  other things with dignity and kindness inherent in you.<\/p>\n<p>Dear  Vladyka, on this remarkable day I prayerfully wish you spiritual and  physical strength, success, and abundant God&#8217;s help in your archpastoral  work, which you zealously do for the good of clergymen and flock of  many millions of the Byelorussian Orthodox Church of the Moscow  Patriarchate.<\/p>\n<p>May the All-Bountiful Lord keep you in good health  for many years!<\/p>\n<p>With love in Christ,<\/p>\n<p><strong>+ KIRILL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 March 2010, after the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, on his 75th birthday and read out the following congratulatory address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}