EASTER MESSAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER II

We are approaching Easter, the holiest Christian time, the time when we celebrate victory of life over death and of the eternal over the temporal.

Easter reminds us who we are and what are we, it warns us that we are not alone on this Earth, that we are part of common and unique history, that we are God’s children, and that Christ’s sacrifice is both a pointer and invitation to liberate the good that reposes inside us, for our sake and for the salvation of all.

Our greatest enemies live within ourselves, and the victory over that internal darkness constitutes a prerequisite for our survival and progress. These are not empty phrases within resounding words, it is the truth that was always contemporary, notwithstanding ages, a truth no less actual today that it was in the times when Jesus walked the waves of the Sea of Galilee, or when Prince Lazarus met with his choice at the Field of Kosovo, or when Insurgents assembled in Orasac.

Very long, too long, our temptations are taking better part of the time that is granted to us upon Earth. From Easter until next Easter and from misery to disaster and from one disgrace to the next scandal, we are moving inside a vicious circle created by the lack of knowledge and lack of wisdom. It cannot be broken if one creates and piles up new prejudices on top of old ones. One needs courage and the will to discontinue and to throw off the chains that bind us to the heritage of demagoguery that constitutes the original source of our past, present and future problems; we have to dress the vestment of humanity before we attempt to adjust the world to the measure of our weaknesses.

This time, as so many times before, I stress that being pro democracy in our public and political life does not impose the question of validity of good or bad political choice, but rather the method to achieve the greatest benefit for all and the sundry. Democracy is not a substitute for faith, nation or politics; it is the way of accommodating various interests without, in return, rejecting own nation, forgetting ones origins and roots or submitting common welfare to selfish profit. Democracy is not perfect, but it is so far the best and only method to save our country and secure our place in the world.

It has been so long time since we experienced our Golgotha! There are too many Pilates inside us and around us! But after Pilatus, after Golgotha, comes the Resurrection and life advances. The future is ours.

Let our hearts be high!

Christ is risen!

He is risen indeed!