{"id":168335,"date":"2018-12-25T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=168335"},"modified":"2018-12-26T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:00:50","slug":"%d1%81%d0%b2%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%bf%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%85-%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%bb-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bb-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2018\/12\/25\/news168335\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Kirill sends Christmas greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Christmas greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches. The addressees include Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church, Pope Francis of Rome, Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Syrian Jacobite Church; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis II Sliwa, Assyrian Church of the East; Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros, Cardinal al-Rahi; Catholicos of the East, Metropolitan of Malankara Basilios Mar Thoma Poulos; Patriarch Abune MathiasI of Ethiopia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Greeting them on the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over two thousand years have passed since a wonderful and most glorious miracle happened in the Bethlehem cave \u2013 <em>God appeared in the flesh <\/em>(I Tim. 3:16). Trembling with reverence before the mystery of this event inscrutable for the human mind, we praise Christ Who was born and proclaimed the Divine truth and opened for people a way to salvation and everlasting life.<\/p>\n<p>In our solemn marking of this feast, we should remember about the great predestination of Christians called by the Lord Himself to be <em>the light of the world and the salt of the earth <\/em>(Mt. 5:13-14), to do the works of love and charity, to bear witness before those who are near and who are far to the eternal ideals of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you physical strength, fortitude and God\u2019s generous help in our lofty ministry.<\/p>\n<p>With love in the Lord,<\/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 Christmas greetings 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":[10,1,2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168335"}],"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=168335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168335\/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=168335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}