HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL DOCUMENT

Draft Synodical Document

Πέμπτη 26 Μαρτίου 2020

ΔΗΛΩΣΙΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΑΝΙΕΡΟΝ ΝΑΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ


Πατριαρχείον ιεροσολύμων
ΔΗΛΩΣΙΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΑΝΙΕΡΟΝ ΝΑΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ
Ἀνακοινωθέντα
26/03/2020

Τήν Πέμπτην, 13ην / 26ην Μαρτίου 2020, αἱ τρεῖς Μείζονες Κοινότητες, ἤτοι τό Ἑλληνορθόδοξον Πατριαρχεῖον Ἱεροσολύμων, ἡ Κουστωδία τῆς Ἁγίας Γῆς τῶν Φραγκισκανῶν καί τό Πατριαρχεῖον τῶν Ἀρμενίων εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, αἱ ἔχουσαι τήν εὐθύνην διά τό Προσκυνηματικόν Καθεστώς, ἐξέδωσαν τήν κάτωθι Ἀνακοίνωσιν, δηλοῦσαν ὅτι αἱ ἀκολουθίαι εἰς τον Πανίερον Ναόν τῆς Ἀναστάσεως θά συνεχίσουν νά τελῶνται συμφώνως πρός τό Τυπικόν καί Προσκυνηματικόν Καθεστώς ὑπό τῶν διακονητῶν ἑκάστης Κοινότητος, μέ μειωμένην συμμετοχήν πιστῶν πρός ἀποφυγήν τῶν συνεπειῶν τοῦ ἰοῦ COVID- 19:

On Thursday, March 13/26, 2020, the Three Major Communities, namely the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Custody of the Holy Land of the Franciscans, and the Patriarchate of the Armenians in Jerusalem, who are responsible for the Status Quo, published the announcement stated below, stating that the Services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will continue to be held by the ministering Fathers of each Community, according to the Typikon of the Status Quo. However there will be a significant decrease in the numbers of the faithful attending the services, in order to adhere to the safety precautions against COVID-19 virus.
Following the evolvement of the situation in the Holy Land, we the Heads of the Three Communities to whom the Providence granted the grace and honour of proclaiming the lodes of the Lord in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre and Resurrection, wish to inform that the celebrations of the Communities, the Greek Orthodox, the Latin and the Armenian will continue regularly, even though for safety reasons and in order to avoid the risk of the diffusion of the COVID-19 infection, the number of participants in the celebrations will be limited to few persons and the Basilica will be accessible during the liturgies only.
We wish to assure that inside the Basilica, the prayers of the Three Communities will continue, rather intensify, asking the Heavenly Father the end of the pandemic, the recovery of the sick, the protection of the medical personnel, the wisdom for the Pastors and the Governors and the eternal salvation to those who lost their lives. We raise this prayer from the very place where, through the sacrifice of His own life on the Calvary and through His Resurrection from the Sepulchre on the third day, the only begotten and beloved Son Jesus Christ, defeated evil, sin and death.
THEOPHILOS III              FRANCESCO PATTON              ARCH. NOURHAN MANOUGIAN                                                                                 
Greek Orthodox               Custos of the Holy Land                        Armenian Patriarch 
Patriarch                                                                                                                  of Jerusalem
of Jerusalem