+ B A R T H O L O M E W
By God\u2019s Mercy
Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
To the Plenitude of the Church:
May the Grace, Peace and Mercy of Christ Risen in Glory be with you All<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMost honorable brother Hierarchs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dearly beloved children,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By God\u2019s mercy and strength, we have journeyed through prayer and fasting across the ocean of Holy and Great Lent, finally reaching the splendid feast of Pascha, and we praise the Lord of glory, who descended to the depths of Hades and \u201cachieved the entrance for all to Paradise\u201d through His raising from the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Resurrection is not the remembrance of an event from the past, but the \u201cgood change\u201d of our existence, \u201canother birth, an alternate life, a different kind of living, the transformation of our very being.\u201d And in the Risen Christ, the entire creation is renewed together with humanity. When we chant in the 3 rd Ode of the Paschal Canon, that \u201cNow everything is filled with light\u2014heaven, earth, and all things beneath the earth; therefore, let all creation celebrate the resurrection of Christ, in which everything has been established,\u201d we proclaim that the universe is founded on and filled with unfading light. The phrases \u201cbefore Christ\u201d and \u201cafter Christ\u201d ring true not only for the history of the human race, but also for the sake of all creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord\u2019s raising from the dead constitutes the nucleus of the Gospel, the stable point of reference for all the books of the New Testament, as well as for the liturgical life and devotion of the Orthodox Christians. Indeed, the words \u201cChrist is Risen!\u201d summarize the theology of the Church. The experience of the abolition of the dominion of death is a source of ineffable joy, \u201cfree from the bonds of this world.\u201d \u201cAll things are filled with joy upon receiving the taste of resurrection.\u201d The resurrection is an explosion \u201cof great joy\u201d and permeates the entire life, ethos and pastoral ministry of the church as the foretaste of the fullness of life, knowledge and life of the eternal kingdom of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Orthodox faith and pessimism are contradictory phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pascha is for us a feast of freedom and victory over alienating forces; it is the churchification of our existence, an invitation to collaborate for the transfiguration of the world. The history of the Church is rendered \u201ca great Pascha\u201d as the journey toward \u201cthe liberation in glory of the children of God\u201d (Rom. 8.21). The experience of resurrection reveals the center and eschatological dimension of freedom in Christ. Biblical references to the Savior\u2019s resurrection demonstrate the power of our freedom as believers; it is in this freedom alone that the \u201cgreat miracle\u201d is manifested, which remains inaccessible to every oppression. \u201cThe mystery of salvation belongs to those who desire it freely, not to those who are tyrannized against their will.\u201d 2 Accepting the divine gift as a \u201ctransition\u201d of the believer toward Christ is the voluntary existential response to the loving and saving \u201ctransition\u201d of the Risen Lord toward humankind. For \u201cwithout me, you cannot do anything\u201d (Jn 15.5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mystery of the Lord\u2019s resurrection to this day continues to shatter the positivistic certainties of those who deny God as \u201cthe denial of human will,\u201d as well as the advocates of \u201cthe fallacy of self-fulfillment without God\u201d and the admirers of the contemporary \u201cman-god.\u201d The future does not belong to those imprisoned in a self-sufficient, stifling and narrow earthly existence. There is no authentic freedom without resurrection, without the perspective of eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the Holy Great Church of Christ, one source of such resurrectional joy is also found this year in the common celebration of Easter by the entire Christian world, along with the commemoration of the 1700 th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, which condemned the heresy of Arius, who \u201cdiminished within the Trinity the one Son and Word of God,\u201d and which established the way of calculating the date for the feast of our Savior\u2019s resurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Council of Nicaea inaugurates a new age in the conciliar history of the Church, the transition from the local to the ecumenical synodal level. As we know, the First Ecumenical Council introduced the non-biblical term \u201chomoousios (of one essence)\u201d to the Symbol of Faith, albeit with a clear soteriological reference, which remains the essential characteristic of church doctrines. In this sense, the celebrations of this great anniversary are not a return to the past, inasmuch as the \u201cspirit of Nicaea\u201d exists unspoiled in the life of the Church, whose unity is associated with the correct understanding and development of its conciliar identity. Discussion on the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea reminds us of the common Christian archetypes and the meaning behind the struggle against the perversion of our spotless faith, encouraging us to turn toward the depth and essence of Church tradition. The joint celebration this year of the \u201cmost holy day of Pascha\u201d highlights the timeliness of the subject, the solution of which not only expresses the respect of Christianity for the decrees of the Council of Nicaea, but also the awareness that \u201cthere should be no differentiation in such sacred matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With these sentiments, filled with the light and joy of the Resurrection, while proclaiming \u201cChrist is Risen!\u201d with jubilation, let us honor the chosen and holy day of Pascha with a heartfelt confession of our faith in the Redeemer, who trampled down death by death and granted life to all people and all creation, through our faithfulness to the sacred traditions of the Great Church as well as through sincere love for our neighbor, for the glorification by us all of the heavenly name of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the Phanar, Holy Pascha 2025
+ Bartholomew of Constantinople
Fervent supplicant for you all
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