Freedom is the greatest divine gift to each person and each people, a priceless gift which, if real, can never be taken away. Since receiving this gift upon its christening, to the present day, the Serbian people have sacrificially struggled for its Freedom – for it was created for Freedom and in Freedom. And not just any kind of freedom but the greatest freedom of all, Christ-like Freedom – including Suffering on the Cross as well as the Triumph of Resurrection. Hence our national struggle is for the Honorable Cross and Golden Freedom.

This truly Christian identity of the Serbian people was confirmed in life-giving example by the Holy Great Martyr Prince Lazarus of Kosovo. A prince in history, an Emperor in eternity, the forefather of our Freedom in Christ, Holy Lazarus was forced to use his wisdom to make and his daring to affirm, as his Choice and ours, either this earthly time or heavenly eternity. He did not hesitate for a second – for the Kingdom of Earth is brief, while that of Heaven everlasting and eternal. .

Our eternal contemporary and timeless one, the Holy Great Martyr Lazarus, hails us through the centuries that we must never, in any circumstances, betray our faith (not to betray our blessed honor). As it was then, Kosovo remains today the place of showing and proving, the critical place, that is, the place of judgment - kriseos ("Now is the judgment of this world" Jn 12:31), for not only our people, but for all the peoples of the earth. This means: the place of decision, assessment and judgment of human deeds and misdeeds, the place of choice and decision. The confirmation that persons and peoples are still in danger, that "men love darkness rather than light" (Jn 3:19), hatred rather than love, destructive-slavish demonic force rather than constructive Divine justice and truth, granting eternal freedom. Hence, truly: Kosovo is a momentous place of judgment, as foreseen by yet another dweller of Heaven and keeper of the Kosovo covenant, Peter II Petrovic Njegos: I prefer to lose the earthly kingdom rather than to lose the Kingdom of Heaven.