Patriarchal Message on the Feast of the Indictus 2026...translated

† B A R T H O L O M A I O S
MERCY OF GOD ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE
NEW ROME AND Ecumenical Patriarch
PANDI Tῼ STAFF OF THE CHURCH OF GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY
DESPITE THE CREATOR'S PASSION OF CREATION
OF LORD AND GOD AND OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
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Most holy and God-fearing brothers Hierarchs and children blessed by the Lord,
Thanks to the benevolent God, today we enter an exciting ecclesiastical year, honoring and celebrating psalms and hymns and spiritual teachings, according to the opening, the "Day of prayer for the protection of the natural environment".
The multidimensional contemporary ecological crisis is a crisis of human freedom, of religion and philosophy, of morality and culture. First comes the "bad alteration" of our freedom, our disconnection and alienation from the Source of Life, and the destructive behavior for the natural environment follows. We feel deep gratitude for the fact that the pioneering initiatives and interventions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, continuously from 1989 until today, not only revealed the spiritual parameters of the ecological problem, but opened up...


