This year, the Archdiocese of the Church of Constantinople in the United States will celebrate Easter “with less measures and more freedom in our festive gatherings,” said Archbishop of America Elpidophoros in his Easter message. This is reported by orthodoxianewsagency.gr.

The hierarch, referring to the last year and the special conditions of quarantine, notes that “those dark days already seem to be a distant past, since we were able to transmit even the Easter light of the Resurrection of Christ in digital format!”

“As always happens, when the darkness of the night gives way to a sweet dawn, and after the gloom of a pandemic, its end dawned with hope and confidence in a better future for all of us,” he said.