We greet you on the occasion of the beginning of the New Ecclesiastical Year (September 14 according to the Gregorian Calendar) which we are entering with the blessing of "The Father, God Almighty, Master of heaven and earth, all things visible and invisible (Symbol of Faith)...

We wholeheartedly address you from the See of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the joyous greeting “Christ is risen!” The resurrection of Christ is the center of our Orthodox faith. Without the resurrection, our faith is “in vain” (1 Cor. 15:14).