{"id":20390,"date":"2010-06-11T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mospat.ru\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2010-06-15T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T07:11:18","slug":"predstoyatel-russkojj-pravoslavnojj-cerkvi-pozdravil-svyatejjshego-patriarkha-konstantinopolskogo-varfolomeya-s-dnem-tezoimenitstva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2010\/06\/11\/news20390\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Kirill\u2019s message of greeting to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on the occasion of his Name Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following message of greetings to the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople on the occasion of his Name Day:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To: His Holiness Bartholomew<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Archbishop of Constantinople \u2013 New Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> and Ecumenical Patriarch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your Holiness, Dear Brother and Concelebrant beloved in the Lord:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to greet you cordially on the occasion of the commemoration day of your heavenly patron, St. Bartholomew, Apostle of Christ. Preserved by Holy Scriptures and the Tradition of the Church, the precious testimony to his calling for apostleship, works of preaching and courageous death reveals the image of a true labourer in God\u2019s field and a model to be emulated by all of us.<\/p>\n<p>With special warmth I remember your recent visit to the Russian Orthodox Church during which we experienced a joy of standing together in prayer before God\u2019s altar when we concelebrated the Divine Liturgy, venerated Orthodox shrines in Russia and had fraternal talks on various issues of church life.<\/p>\n<p>To your primatial greeting \u2018Christ is amidst us!\u2019 the Holy Russia joyfully responds from all her corners, \u2018He is and will be!\u2019 Our hearts still resound with the echo of your sincere and warm words: \u201cWe are real brothers born from one mother, nourished by the same milk, preserving and confessing \u2018with one heart and mouth\u2019 the faith that has been handed down to us by saints\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Your Holiness, I wholeheartedly wish you sound health, peace, blessed long life and all-powerful help from God in your important and highly demanding patriarchal service for the good of the Holy Church of Constantinople.<\/p>\n<p>With brotherly love in the Lord,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\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 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following message of greetings to the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople on the occasion of his Name Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390"}],"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=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}