{"id":158454,"date":"2018-04-01T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=158454"},"modified":"2018-04-02T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T10:12:16","slug":"%d0%bf%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%85%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d1%81%d0%b2%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%88%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%be-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2018\/04\/01\/news158454\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Kirill\u2019s Paschal message to heads of non-Orthodox Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Paschal messages to heads of non-Orthodox Churches, among them Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark; Pope Francis of Rome; Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch and All the East (Syriac Jacobite Church); Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of all Armenians; Catholicos Aram I of Cilicia; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis III Sliwa if the Assyrian Church of the East; Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Cardinal al-Rahi of Antioch and All the East; Malankara Metropolitan and Catholics of the East Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II; and Patriarch Abune Mathias I of Ethiopia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The message of greetings states in particular,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018On the great day of the glorious resurrection of Christ Who has opened to people the way to eternal blissful life, I address myself to you with the joyful Paschal greeting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CHRIST IS RISEN!<\/p>\n<p>The Saviour\u2019s sacrifice on the cross is a testimony to God\u2019s boundless love for His creation and His rising from the grave has marked the beginning of a new era in human history; <em>for <\/em><em>Christ is risen, and life reigns! Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb! <\/em>(Paschal Homily).<\/p>\n<p>In these radiant festive days I wish that you and your flock may praise the Master of Life and Conqueror of Death in joy and peace. May <em>God and Father of our Lord Who in His great mercy has given us new birth\u00a0into a living hope\u00a0through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead <\/em>(1 Pet. 1:3) grant you strength and generous help in your lofty and important service.<\/p>\n<p>With love in the Lord and our Saviour,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>+ Kirill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Paschal messages to heads of non-Orthodox Churches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158454"}],"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=158454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}