Archbishop Makarios of Australia sends his Easter message on the occasion of Easter, which we are celebrating in a completely different way this year.
As he points out, the pandemic that engulfed all of humanity created new situations and new circumstances which physically separated us from the space of the Church and distanced us from Holy Communion.
“God allowed this to happen in this way for reasons that He Himself knows. We glorify Him and we give thanks to Him because we know that, even from within this trial, something good for our salvation will most certainly transpire,” says Archbishop Makarios. He also notes that we experience the Resurrection removed from the space of the Church, “but I want to believe, not isolated.”
He adds that pandemic closed our Churches; it deprived us of Holy Communion, but it united all of us in the name of Jesus Christ as one great family and taught us something that for many years we had forgotten: family prayer.
The full Easter message of Archbishop Makarios of Australia is the following:
