Christmas Message

Patriarch Daniel’s Christmas Message 2020: Show signs of hope, peace, and joy!

In his Christmas message this year, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel recalls that ‘humanity facing the new coronavirus is going through a difficult period as regards human life and health.’ That is why we need ‘much prayer, solidarity and brotherly help.’ Patriarch Daniel highlights that ‘the light of the Infant Jesus born in Bethlehem calls us…

Dec 24, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

We are called to embody the gifts on Nativity in works of benevolence and charity, Patriarch of Antioch says in Christmas message

In his pastoral letter for Christmas, Patriarch John X of Antioch sent a message of hope, consolation and trust. The Divine Infant brings hope and trust, and we are called to welcome Him with the gifts of our good deeds in favour of those in need. “In the night of the present times, here comes…

Dec 24, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarch’s Christmas Message: Pandemic does not affect the innermost relationship of the faithful with Christ

In his Christmas message, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew stressed that the Christmas Fast – the journey to the great feast of the Nativity of the Saviour – was different this year in terms of external conditions caused by the pandemic, but all this does not affect the innermost relationship of the faithful with Christ. Our church…

Dec 24, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Christmas message by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem

“Heaven and earth are made one today, for Christ is born. Today God is come upon the earth, and man is gone up into the Heavens. Today He Who by nature is invisible, for man’s sake is seen in the flesh.” (Sticheron Idiomelo 2 – Christmas Entreaty) Today the Church all over the world celebrates…

Dec 21, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Ecumenical Patriarch’s 2018 Christmas Message warns about new forms of nestorianism and monophysitism

In this year’s Christmas Message, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warns about contemporary ‘nestorianism’ understood as secularization and scientism, and a new form of ‘monophysitism’ represented by tendencies to demonize the body and natural man, by puritanism and the syndromes of “purity,” by fruitless introverted spirituality and various mysticisms. Patriarchal Proclamation of Christmas 2018 by…

Dec 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarch’s Christmas Message warns that globalization is destroying the conditions of social cohesion and harmony

In this year’s Proclamation of Christmas, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I warns that ‘in our time, the indulgence of the affluent has increased and globalization is destroying the conditions of social cohesion and harmony.’ Patriarchal Proclamation of Christmas 2017 Bartholomew By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of…

Dec 21, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO | Christmas Message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel

The Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ or Christmas shows God’s humble and merciful love for all humankind. The Son of the boundless and immortal God becomes a mortal human being, in order to give eternal life to humans. At the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, the angels in…

Dec 23, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarch calls in Christmas message for respecting rights and integrity of children

His Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, called the world in his Christmas message to respect the rights and integrity of children. In his message, the Ecumenical Patriarch says that the Gospel of the Nativity of the Lord, though representing a great joy for humans, is proclaimed today in a…

Dec 22, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu