Belgrade, February 2, 2026
Photo: spc.rs
The Serbian Patriarch gave out gift packages to over 2,000 religious education students from schools in the territory of the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovci this weekend.
His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije distributed the gifts at St. Sava’s Cathedral in Belgrade on Saturday, January 31, reports the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The day started with a cultural program, beginning with 2,000 young students and their teachers reciting the Lord’s Prayer. The Rastko children’s choir sang a hymn to St. Sava.
Photo: spc.rs Pat. Porfirije congratulated the students on the feast of St. Sava, the first Archbishop of Serbia, which was celebrated on January 27, and addressed them with a paternal homily. “Dear children, may you have a happy and blessed feast, and may the prayer of St. Sava be with all of us,” the Patriarch said. “But above all, let us strive, in addition to praying to St. Sava, to follow his example.”
His Holiness emphasized that St. Sava “knew that it wasn’t enough for his head to be full of all kinds of knowledge, but he knew that this knowledge would be useful to him if he first had a fulfilled heart. The heart must be filled with love.”
The Patriarch then distributed gifts to fifteen children from all elementary schools in Belgrade.
The St. Sava celebration was organized by the Committee for Religious Education of the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovci, the Cathedral of St. Sava, and the humanitarian organization Everyone for Kosovo and Metohija.
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