{"id":20450,"date":"2010-06-15T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mospat.ru\/?p=20450"},"modified":"2010-06-15T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:30:47","slug":"mitropolit-volokolamskijj-ilarion-napravil-predstoyatelyu-pravoslavnojj-cerkvi-v-amerike-pozdravlenie-po-sluchayu-dnya-tezoimenitstva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2010\/06\/15\/news20450\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk sends greetings to Primate of the Orthodox Churches in America with his Name Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate&#8217;s Department for External Church Relations, sent greetings to His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, with his Name Day. The text is given below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your Beatitude, dear Vladyka:<\/p>\n<p>On the Day of your Patron Saint, please accept my sincere congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Entrusted to you, the guardian angel of the Orthodox Church in America, is the helm of the church boat, which you lead by a firm hand, guiding it to the haven of salvation. As a good shepherd of the flock of Christ, you have dedicated all your life and gifts to your sheep\u00a0 (Jn. 10:11).<\/p>\n<p>Your works and prayers tie the peoples nourished by our two Churches by the inseverable bonds of fraternal love in Christ. In the person of Your Beatitude we see a reliable and close friend of the Russian Orthodox Church. With special warmth I remember the visits of Your Beatitude to Moscow, during which we had a spiritual joy of open and cordial fellowship with you.<\/p>\n<p>May the All-Merciful Lord Who has placed on you the important burden of primatial ministry send Your Beatitude abundant and rich blessings. I prayerfully solicit the All-Good God to grant you spiritual strength, wisdom, grace-giving service and good health for many years.<\/p>\n<p>With respectful love in the Lord, <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>+ Hilarion,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Metropolitan of Volokolamsk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Department for External Church Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moscow Patriarchate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate&#8217;s Department for External Church Relations, sent greetings to His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, with his Name Day. The text is given below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}