Catholic Easter 2022. After two years, the resurrection service took place without restrictions. The pope said in Ukrainian, &quot;Christ is risen!&quot;

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17 Apr. 2022 / 09:25

Catholic Easter 2022. After two years, the resurrection service took place without restrictions. The pope said in Ukrainian, "Christ is risen!"

More than a million and a half Romanians, along with more than a billion Catholic and Protestant believers around the world, celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord on April 17. It is the first unrestricted Easter holiday, after two years of religious ceremonies were restricted due to the pandemic.

The Passover that the Roman Catholic, Reformed, Unitarian and Evangelical believers celebrate on Sunday will be followed, next Sunday, by the similar celebration of Orthodox Christians. On Saturday night to Sunday, the Roman Catholic and Reformed believers take part in the solemn celebration of the Easter Vigil, which expresses the transition from death and sin to new life.

The former mayor kidnapped from Melitopol and three Ukrainian parliamentarians, along with the Pope

At the Vatican, the Resurrection service began on Saturday night without any restrictions, after two years of pandemic, but with the shadow of war in the souls of the faithful. Pope Francis spoke of the "horrors, darkness and cruelty of war", while he was accompanied by the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov (who had been abducted by Russian forces but later managed to be released), and three Ukrainian parliamentarians.

During his speech, the Sovereign Pontiff invoked "gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war." He noted that while "many writers evoke the beauty of starry nights, war nights, however, are permeated by those light beams that herald death," The Guardian reports.

Addressing Melitopol Mayor Ivan Federov and Ukrainian lawmakers Maria Mezenteva, Olena Homenko and Rustem Umerov directly, he said: We pray for you and with you tonight. We pray for all your suffering. We can only offer you our approach and our prayer and tell you to be courageous and that we are with you. We celebrate the most important thing: Christ is risen! ”

He ended his message by saying in Ukrainian, "Christ is risen!"

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