Light up, light up, New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has shone upon you!
We celebrate with the greatest joy, dear brothers and sisters, the life-giving and glorious Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
All the works of God, starting with the creation of the world and man and everything that the Lord spoke, did and performed miracles, culminate in the Resurrection of Christ. In it they receive their full and eternal meaning. The Resurrection reveals the mystery of the person of Christ and His boundless love for humanity. Everything that is human, everything except sin, is immortalized and immortalized by this saving event.
On this Feast of Feasts, in the holy services, on the waves of God's mercy, let us glorify our Redeemer and Savior, for He has made us partakers and communicants of His Resurrection and His eternal glory.
Our God, the Creator of heaven and earth, having no need to save Himself, not being subject to suffering, decay, and death, because of His boundless love for man, took on human nature and entered this world, the vale of tears, to voluntarily accept the sufferings of the cross and death, for the sake of our salvation. Death, unable to hold the Almighty of creation, is defeated by Him, and Christ's Resurrection becomes a victory over death for each of those who, according to their strength and power, are likened to Christ, follow in His blessed footsteps, and do His will.
The light of the Resurrection brought a turning point and a saving upheaval in the entire history of the world and man. It shone at a single historical moment, and its light does not diminish, but eternally warms us, and us, as well as our ancestors who were and remained faithful to the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. The risen God-man brings a new meaning to everything and reveals to us that man is not a being destined for death, as some philosophers said, but a being destined for the community of love and eternal life. Encouraged, strengthened, redeemed and truly reborn by Christ's suffering and Resurrection, we receive a new perspective on life. Not the kind offered to us by the famous and powerful of this world, promising more, better, stronger, and greater, but the perspective of eternal life. Any human progress that does not have a vision of eternal life and the eternal meaning of the existence of man and the world inevitably "seduces us to Goleš Planina" and makes us develop a false sense of our own progress and well-being, even though we have not essentially changed for the better. Therefore, in the last few centuries, in the era of technological and any other progress, we see that the improvement of human life has not kept pace with these achievements. It could be said that technological progress has enabled us to be much more efficient in harming each other. Empowered rulers have perfected control over their subordinates, over their lives and consciences. The unreasonable production of weapons of mass destruction has brought this world to the danger of self-destruction. All this does not mean that human effort to develop science and penetrate the secrets of the material world is in itself something bad and useless. This only shows that human nature requires something disproportionately greater for its healing. What is truly more, better, stronger and more valuable than everything transient, towards which we consciously or unconsciously strive, is revealed to us by the Resurrection of Christ, which we are currently celebrating.
The Lord, through his life and teaching, revealed that true good is achieved not by dominating others, but by serving and sacrificing for others. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant. For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many (Matt. 20:26-28).
The Lord came into this world “that we might live through him” (1 John 4:9). Living with Christ means living in the joy of the Resurrection. This Easter joy is suppressed only by sin, which narrows the human soul, confining it to death and hell. Let us not grieve with our sins the Holy Spirit with whom we were sealed in holy Baptism when we made a vow to God that we would courageously fight against evil and sin. Otherwise, sin will grow into destructive vices and passions, and even into the diseases of addiction that are spreading like an epidemic today. All these demonic phenomena ruin the human being, destroy marriages, families, godparenthoods and friendships, and poison the entire society.
Let us learn, dear brothers and sisters, and let us teach our children, that doing good and cultivating the ideal of virtue is not something outdated and outdated. Believing people, who grow in virtues, inspired by the Holy Spirit, know that the light of goodness, truth, honesty, justice, purity and love never becomes obsolete and does not lose its value.
In these bright festive days, looking at the horrors of war and the shedding of human blood, the suffering of the innocent, especially children, women and the elderly, we should multiply our prayers for peace in the world. We are concerned that the law of the stronger is being emphasized more and more loudly, that force is glorified, and justice and truth are despised...

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