Spiritual leader of Kosovo Serbs urges his flock to follow the Savior\u2019s way of the Cross<\/p>\n

Belgrade, April 17, Interfax \u2013 Ruling hierarch of Kosovo Bishop Artemije of Ra\u0161ka-Prizren in his Easter message urged residents of this Serbian region not to abandon their native land.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s stay in Kosovo and Metohija near our shrines, near tombs of our glorious and holy fathers! It is our way of the Cross to the Resurrection, the only way leading to eternal life,\u201d the Bishop\u2019s message reads.<\/p>\n

Bishop Artemije noted that residents of Kosovo had already celebrated the Resurrection of Christ in \u201ccrucified Kosovo for ten years.\u201d However, in spite of sufferings and grief, they celebrate this luminous feast with faith and hope that suffering with Christ, they will also resurrect with Him.<\/p>\n

The spiritual leader of Kosovo Serbs urged his compatriots to be with the Savior \u201cin His suffering\u201d and follow Him. \u201cThen our life with Christ and in Christ will be crowned with eternal life with Him, Resurrected, in His glory and eternal blessed life,\u201d Bishop Artemjie believes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the source of our faith and hope, the source of this Easter joy that no one can steal from us. Our spiritual children! The only thing that we should be afraid of and that can separate us from this eternal spiritual joy in the Kingdom of Christ is sin and sin only,\u201d the Bishop further said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite all outside obstacles and misfortunes surrounding Christ\u2019s man, he remains spiritually free, cheerful, immortal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur devotion and faithfulness to Resurrected Christ, devotion and faithfulness to our spiritual and national roots deeply imbedded in the holy Kosovo-Metohija soil, are the greatest treasure that we can pass on our children and our descendants for them to believe, to live and to find salvation in the only saving Orthodox faith,\u201d Bishop Artemije said to Kosovo Serbs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spiritual leader of Kosovo Serbs urges his flock to follow the Savior\u2019s way of the Cross Belgrade, April 17, Interfax \u2013 Ruling hierarch of Kosovo Bishop Artemije of Ra\u0161ka-Prizren in his Easter message urged residents of this Serbian region not to abandon their native land. \u201cLet\u2019s stay in Kosovo and Metohija near our shrines, near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[638,635,65,160,296,628,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}