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🇷🇺 Message about Indict 2026translated

September 1, 2026 · 1 min read

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BY GRACE OF GOD ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE,

NEW ROME AND THE ECONICAL PATRIARCH

TOTAL TO THE FULLNESS OF THE CHURCH GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY

FROM THE CREATOR OF ALL THE LORD'S CREATION

AND GOD AND OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST

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Your Eminences and God-loving brothers and hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord!

The grace of the benefactor God we enter today into the new church year, honoring and celebrating him in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, at the very beginning of it celebrating the “Day of prayers for the protection of the natural environment."

Multilateral the modern ecological crisis is a crisis of human freedom, religion and philosophy, ethics and culture. It is preceded by a “pernicious distortion” of our freedom, our separation and alienation from the Source of Life, the consequence of which is destructive way of action in relation to the natural environment. We experience deep gratitude for the innovative initiatives and actions of the Ecumenical Patriarchy, continuously undertaken from 1989 to this day, not only revealed the spiritual aspects of the environmental problem, but also opened new ways and prospects for its solution. Environmental conferences, relevant inter-Christian...

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Ανδρέας Παναγιωτόπουλος
Ο Πατριάρχης μιλάει για την κρίση ως αποτέλεσμα «πανώλης διαστροφής» της ελευθερίας μας και αποξένωσης από τον Θεό. Αυτό το κομμάτι μου έκανε εντύπωση, γιατί δείχνει ότι το πρόβλημα δεν είναι μόνο τεχνικό αλλά βαθιά πνευματικό. Ας το έχουμε αυτό κατά νου όταν προσευχόμαστε για το περιβάλλον την 1η Σεπτεμβρίου.
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Νίκος Σταθόπουλος
Συμφωνώ Ανδρέα, αυτό το «πανώλης διαστροφής» της ελευθερίας μας είναι το κλειδί. Δεν φτάνει να αλλάξουμε λάμπες ή να μαζεύουμε πλαστικά, αν δεν ξαναβρούμε τη σχέση μας με τον Δημιουργό. Θα το έχω στο μυαλό μου την 1η Σεπτέμβρη στη λειτουργία.
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Nicholas Parker
The bit about the ecological crisis being a “pestilent distortion” of our freedom really struck me too. It’s not just about swapping light bulbs or picking up plastic; if we stay cut off from the Source of Life, we’ll keep messing things up. Will keep that in mind when we sing the hymns for the new church year on 1 September.
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Radu Gheorghiu
Da, fraza aia cu „păgubitoarea denaturare” a libertății noastre și înstrăinarea de Izvorul Vieții m-a pus pe gânduri. Nu e doar despre reciclare sau schimbat becuri, ci despre cum ne-am rupt de Dumnezeu și de asta stricăm totul în jur. O să țin minte asta când o să merg la slujba de 1 septembrie la noi în parohie.
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Nicholas Turner
Yeah, that line about the "pestilent distortion" of freedom hit me too. It's a good reminder that just recycling more won't fix it if we're still living like the world is ours to wreck. I always think about that when we do the Indiction prayers at St. Elias—makes the hiking trails feel a little more like church.
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