Even condolences are not sacred to Porfirije Perić

SOURCE: ANTENA M – AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS

The Church of Serbia (SPC) announces that their Patriarch Porfirije Perić, on the occasion of the tragic event in Cetinje, sent, as they state, a “statement of condolences” to his diocesan (diocesan) Metropolitan Joanikije Mićović.

A little over three years ago, Perić enthroned Mićović with massive police violence against the citizens of Cetinje. Even today’s Perić “statement of condolences” to Mićović is not devoid of coded anti-Montenegrin messages, for example about a “closer fraternal environment”.

We note that the perpetrator of the Cetinje massacre that occurred in the summer of 2022 was a follower of the Church of Serbia.

Perić's letter, published today on the website of the Church of Serbia, is reproduced in its entirety…

- His Eminence Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Mr. Joanikije, Cetinje

Your Eminence,

Dear brother and fellow minister in the Infant Christ,

The gift of life is of priceless value, since every human being, by the wisdom and love of God, is called into this world. Therefore, we feel a deep need to, due to yesterday's terrible event in ancient and glorious Cetinje, the seat of your holy diocese, in which as many as twelve people lost their lives, to ask Your Eminence to convey the expressions of Our prayerful condolences and paternal concern to the faithful people there and to the relatives of the victims.

With you and all our brother hierarchs of Our Holy Church, we share great concern over the fact that this is one in a series of very tragic events that have recently taken place in a narrower, fraternal and close, geographical area. These pre-Christmas days show us all that only a fundamental return to Christian values ​​and way of life, which is embodied in Cetinje by the ancient Lavra of St. Peter, can bring spiritual peace and reliable judgment in moments of personal and general crises and trials.

In this terrifying torrent of sorrow, we pray for the repose of the souls of the innocently suffered children of God, while Our prayerful eyes remain fixed on the faces of the families of the victims. May Christ comfort and strengthen their grieving hearts, and may He illuminate the souls of the departed with the light of His imperishable Kingdom and grant them eternal rest.

AEM and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije