{"id":168339,"date":"2018-12-25T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=168339"},"modified":"2018-12-26T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:01:48","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-%d0%b3%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bc-%d0%b8%d0%bd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2018\/12\/25\/news168339\/","title":{"rendered":"DECR chairman sends Christmas greetings to 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 greetings to Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church; Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Church; Pope Francis; Patriarch Bechara Butros Cardinal al-Rai of the Maronite Church; Patriarch Youssef I Absi of the Greek Catholic Melkite Church; Malankara Metropolitan Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholic of the East; Patriarch-Catholicos Abune Mathias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis III Sliwa of the Assyrian Church of the East; Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Yonan of the Syrians; Archbishop Tapio Luoma, Primate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland; Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, and heads of many other non-Orthodox Churches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The text of the message is given below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the depths of my heart I congratulate you on the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Today we celebrate one of the most important events in the history of humankind: God has become incarnate for our salvation, desiring \u201cto minister, and to give his life a ransom for many\u201d (Mt 20:28). The coming into the world of the Saviour has changed the course of human history, having transfigured forever the created world.<\/p>\n<p>Let us give thanks to God who has loved us by heeding the call of St. Gregory the Theologian, who said: \u201cRevere the birth through which you have been delivered from the bonds of death \u2026 Bring gifts with the magi, gold and frankincense and myrrh, as to a king and a God and one dead for your sake. With the shepherds give glory, with the angels and the archangels sing hymns. Let there be a common celebration of the heavenly and earthly powers\u201d (<em>Oration 38: On the Nativity of Christ<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>I wish you good health and God\u2019s grace-filled aid in your lofty ministry.<\/p>\n<p>With love in Christ who has been born,<\/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 of 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 greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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\/168339"}],"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=168339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168339\/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=168339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}