The Nativity Encyclical of the Serbian Orthodox Church 2025
Published on January 26, 2026
The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Christmas, 2025
PORFIRIJE
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 most joyous Christmas greeting:
Peace from God! Christ is Born!
Beloved brothers and sisters,
Once again this year, by the mercy of the Lord, as we share with you the joy of the Nativity, we proclaim anew and again the only true novelty under the sun: the meeting, the embrace, and the kiss of the temporal and the eternal, of heaven and earth, of God and man — the Birth of the Savior, Christ the Lord (Luke 2:10–11). Let us proclaim it with the shepherds, worship with the wise men, and sing with the angels: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men!” (Luke 2:14). This angelic hymn proclaims to us that peace is a gift of God; it calls us to receive this gift and to participate in it.
