Easter Message 2025 from Patriarch Kieran The Promise of Easter Dear brothers and sisters, may the peace of the Risen Lord be with you all! Easter is a time of profound renewal and hope, as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which brings the promise of salvation and peace to the world. Easter signifies a new creation, where Christ's resurrection acts as "a new creation, like a graft that can regenerate the whole plant". This event has changed the course of history, "tipping the scales once and for all on the side of good, of life, of pardon". In these times, humanity needs an "exodus," not merely superficial adjustments, but a deep spiritual and moral conversion. This exodus calls for the "salvation of the Gospel, so as to emerge from a profound crisis, one which requires deep change, beginning with consciences". I pray that in regions marred by conflict, especially "in the Middle East, and especially in the land sanctified by his death and resurrection, the peoples will accomplish a true and definitive “exodus” from war and violence to peace and concord". Let us embrace the values of peace, dialogue, and reconciliation in our daily lives. May the saving power of Christ’s resurrection fill all of humanity, so that it may overcome the multiple tragic expressions of a “culture of death” which are becoming increasingly widespread, so as to build a future of truth in let us continue our Pilgrimage bearing in our hearts the song hat is ancient and yet ever new.