"For the true Christian, any difficulty, any temptation or disease permitted by God, it is not a brake, but a springboard in our spiritual struggle, if we deal with them in His own name and under His watch ", emphasizes, including, the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Mr.. Theodoros II in his resurrection message……………
"True Easter is the experience of the Sacrifice of the Godman our Lord Jesus Christ, it is a sacrifice, is an offer, mainly of ourselves towards man " adds the Alexandrian Primate.
The whole resurrection message of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Mr.. Theodorou for this year's Easter is as follows:
"The Easter of the Orthodox, Easter, this celebration which surpassed in power and Grace the Creation of the universe, the fact that changed it “Welcome” to ‘Saint once and for all, it comes again as a memory in the course of our lives. And I say memory, because Easter, the passage from Death to Life is permanent, the inalienable, the only true reality of every moment of Christians.
True Easter is the experience of the Sacrifice of the Godman our Lord Jesus Christ, it is a sacrifice, is an offer, mainly of ourselves towards man, the image of God, and to all Creation to the ‘Uncreated and Incomprehensible Lord. Because Easter is not just a historic holiday, a reminder of a sacred event. Easter is the perfection of man.
Many, my kids, these days they will speak to you in theological terms, with philosophical meanings around this great event of the Resurrection. The Patriarch, Nevertheless, of the Great City of Alexandria, of the city of afflicted philosophers and orators, he speaks to you from the surplus of his heart and speaks to you unequivocally: Celebrate a real and genuine Easter this year as well! Let not even the pandemic stop us from doing this, nor the evil of the world, nor the individualism that tends to alter our human condition. In the celebration of Easter let no one stand and no obstacle in our society with the Slaughtered Lamb, the truth, the light, our Way and Resurrection.
For the true Christian, my dear children, any difficulty, any temptation or disease, allowed by God, it is not a brake, but a springboard in our spiritual struggle, if we deal with them in His own Name and under His watch.
Only in His Name all these good natural moments are transformed into virtues and transform our society by the power of the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, any aretology, any literature on good and human rights, without Christ, it remains at most just a good deed but not a holy deed. Saints only the Christ of One, Saint, The Catholic and Apostolic Church creates through the perspective and at the same time the event of the Resurrection.
Virtue in Christ means sacrifice, it means offering ourselves voluntarily and without expecting anything in return. Believing in Christ and His Resurrection means in practice offering myself without thinking of rewards and rewards.
I make my Cross and throw myself into the fight, I give to my fellow man, my heart burns for all Creation, precisely because I adore the Creator Himself.
This unique and invaluable dimension, the true dimension of the Orthodox faith, we have been blessed by the Risen Lord to live it daily here in the Continent of the future, in Africa, in the most precious Golgotha of the human race, in the skull place of vanity and in the empty Tomb of hope. Everything here in Africa is becoming new! Our Orthodox Church, founded by the Apostle Mark and following in his footsteps with enthusiasm and optimism, with resurrection pulse, the belt is loosened, always willing to bandage the pain, to sprinkle the wounds with oil and wine, to flush the Nile marshes with Jordan kennels, to turn deserts into oases, to sprinkle with His Blood the doors of hearts, to give His Body as food, to quench the thirsts and hopes. Our Orthodox Church in Africa also preaches the Cross and preaches the Resurrection.
That’ this is what we live for and we insist on sympathizing, to sacrifice, to be crucified, to live through man with the Godman. We insist and strive to celebrate Easter, as a passage from despair to hope, from the difficulty to freedom and to light, next to the blessed people of the Lord.
From the City of Wisdom of this world, Alexandria, I send you the message of the supreme Wisdom of God and I cry out to all:
Christ is Risen, brothers and children!
Christ is risen and none of our expectations can remain dead within us!
Let it be the infinite glory, honor and worship, in His Name!
With resurrection wishes ".