Serbian patriarch's message on Orthodox Easter

The religion's most important feast is a 4-day state holiday in Serbia, from Good Friday until Easter Monday.

Ahead of Easter, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej issued his message, reading as follows:
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By the Grace of God
Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with the joyous Paschal greeting:
Christ is Risen!
O death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?
Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb!
Christ is risen, and life reigns!
(Paschal Homily of Saint John Chrysostom)
Dear Spiritual Children,
With hearts full of joy and the light, we today celebrate Feast of feasts, the Feast of victory of faith and life over death, the feast of Christ's resurrection, as well as the resurrection of human nature, the resurrection of every person.
Dissolution and death, planted in human nature through sin, confirm with their glaring and undeniable certainty the end of the historical path and life of every human being. The biological cycle that begins from the mother's womb ends in the womb of the earth, but passingness and death show themselves as the only unavoidable reality. But we, from the first man to this day, with our every word, thought and action show that we do not accept death, that the death is anomaly, that we are hungry and thirsty for eternal life, that is, that we are created and elected for the fullness of life and eternity.
Hence all human...

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