PATRIARCH HELD EASTER MESSAGE: Modern man has founded life on himself, without Christ and other people!

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, criticized individualism in his Easter message and pointed to the danger of discord and deep misunderstandings in the country, emphasizing that the liturgical way of life is the only answer to the problems.

“With great pain, experiencing the tragedy of war suffering throughout the world, and deeply aware of the danger of discord and deep misunderstandings that have affected our country and regions, as a Church we cannot send a different message than this: the liturgical way of life is the only essential answer to these problems,” the Patriarch emphasized.

He called on all actors in social life to build peace, mutual respect, and dialogue for the good and progress of the people.

The Patriarch stated that the man of modern civilization has founded life on himself, without Christ and other people, that he understands himself as an individual, and that he sees in another man an enemy who threatens his freedom and his being.

As he pointed out, this is why the man of modern civilization began to create mono-national states and to divide himself from others, considering others undesirable and enemies, which resulted in catastrophes and caused two world wars, and continues today.

“An example of this is the suffering of our people in Kosovo and Metohija at the hands of the local Albanian authorities, who are expelling Serbs from their centuries-old hearths, and those who remain are subjected to daily harassment, wanting to create their own state on Serbian territory sanctified by martyrs and ascetics, as well as numerous Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries,” Patriarch Porfirije stated.

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He added that it would be better for everyone in that area, but also for all people in the world, to live in peace with each other, respecting each other and helping each other in everyday life.

The Patriarch pointed out that the individualistic way of life should be opposed and that one should live “according to the example of the liturgical way of existence of the Church.”

“In the community of freedom with Christ and other people, as the Liturgy shows, man foretastes his true existence. Only in the community of freedom, love with another man and God, does man become an absolute and unrepeatable personality. In that community of love with others, the whole of nature and everything around us is dear and precious to us,” the Patriarch stated.

According to him, the liturgy shows that nature was given by God for people to live from it and to preserve it and offer it to God, because God also created it to exist eternally.

Patriarch Porfirije pointed out that people today have brought nature to the brink of ruin, exploiting it for individual enjoyment, and that people will also cease to exist because they are part of nature.

The Patriarch ended his message with the traditional greeting “Christ is risen, indeed He is risen.”