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Christmas Liturgy held at Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Sarajevo

FENA Nermina Omerbegović

SARAJEVO, January 7 (FENA) - The Orthodox faithful who celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ under the Julian calendar today are celebrating this most important Christian holiday.

At the Christmas Liturgy in the Cathedral Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Sarajevo, led by Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosna, Hrizostom, an epistle was read signed by the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Irinej and all the archbishops of the Church.

As it is stated in the epistle, the birth of Jesus Christ is an event that divides human history into two parts, the time before his birth, which is understood as preparing the people for the Messiah's coming and the time after his birth.

In the year 2019, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates the great jubilee of the Church - eight hundred years after obtaining autocephaly. The consecration of St. Sava for the first Serbian archbishop and obtaining the independence of the Serbian Orthodox Church took place in Nicaea in 1219, thanks to the love and understanding of the Byzantine Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and the then retired Constantinople patriarch Manojlo I.

The SPC epistle also draws attention “to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, citing one of the key preconditions for solving the problem, building a society based on the rule of law in which people of different backgrounds can live in peace, with full protection and respect for everyone's religious, cultural and national identities.”

“The joy of the gift of salvation, upon which all should be thankful, can be experienced only through mutual forgiveness and reconciliation. Bearing this in mind and with deep regret, sorrow and sympathies for the Serb and all other victims of disastrous wars in the territories of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, we pray that peace will finally enter into our hearts, to forgive one another because the Lord forgave us our sins. The only way to stop being slaves to the past and the daily political interests is the forgiveness and reconciliation and we invite all the nations to join in with which we once lived in one state,” it is said in the Christmas epistle of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

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