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Archpastoral Encyclical at the Beginning of Great and Holy Lent


Archpastoral Encyclical at the Beginning of Great and Holy Lent

Archpastoral Encyclical at the Beginning of Great and Holy Lent

I greet you, dear children of God, with this Pastoral letter, asking and praying that all of us in this God protected Diocese of Western America, will spend the salvific season of Great Lent in mutual forgiveness and love; in fasting and prayer; in charitable and other good deeds; in fervent church attendance; in participation in the Divine services, and with humility and repentance, in the partaking of holy communion at the Divine Liturgy, so that it be unto our salvation, both on a personal and community level. No one is saved alone but in the community of faith and love in Christ, with our brothers and sisters in the Church of the Living and True God.

Therefore, fatherly and brotherly, I ask at this time before Christ’s and our Pascha, that all those unbaptized – both children and adults – be baptized; those married but not sacramentally, to be united in the Sacrament of Matrimony; those who have not received the Sacrament of Holy Confession to do so; that we properly bury those who did not receive Christian burial; that those who are quarrelling be reconciled; and those who have not received Holy Communion, to receive it frequently during these Holy forty days of lent with passion week and the Resurrection of Christ our Savior.

I especially ask the brother priests and members of church boards to nurture mutual love and respect, trust and cooperation in their parishes, working together in the Lord’s Vineyard. For all of us, each in his own place and in his God-entrusted service, are of the same flock of Christ the Archpastor, branches on the same Vine, and members of the same living God-Man, the Body of Christ.

Bishop Maxim


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Обраћамо вам се, драга Децо Божја, овим Пастирским писмом са молбом вама и молитвама Богу: да ове спасоносне дане Великог Поста сви у парохијама ове богоспасаване Западноамеричке Епархије проведемо у међусобном праштању и љубави, у посту, молитвама, милостињама и другим добрим делима, у усрдном похађању светих храмова, учешћу на богослужењима и смиреном и са покајањем причешћивању на Светим Литургијама, и тиме истински послужимо своме личном и свенародном спасењу. Нико се од нас не спасава сâм, него у заједници вере и љубави у Христу са браћом нашом у Цркви Бога Живога и Истинитога.

Зато вас очински и братски молим, у ово време пред Христову и нашу Пасху: да се сва некрштена деца или одрасли крсте, невенчани венчају, неопојани опоју, неисповеђени исповеде, завађени измире, непричешћени причешћују, и то што чешће током Свете Четрдесетнице и у дане Страдања и Васкрсења Христа Спаса.

Посебно молим браћу Свештенике и чланове Црквених одбора да у парохијама, међусобно и са осталим верницима, негују узајамно поштовање и љубав, поверење и сарадњу на истом послу у Винограду Господњем.

Сви ми, сваки на своме месту и у својој богоповереној служби, из истог смо стада Христа Архипастира, лозе на истом Чокоту, чланови истог живог Богочовечанског Тела Христовог.

Епископ Максим


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