On 7 January 2024, on the Feast of the Nativity of Christ – Christmas, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije served the Holy Liturgy in the Patriarchate of Peć. On this occasion, Patriarch Porfirije conveyed:

– May this holiday be blessed, brothers and sisters! May the God-Child Christ, born in a cave, transform our hearts into His cave. May He dwell in our souls and hearts, first here, in this holy convent, in all of us gathered here, and then in all our brothers and sisters living on Kosovo and Metohija, but also in all people living on Kosovo and Metohija. May the hearts of all people of the world become Christ's caves, so that His love, warming the hearts of all of us and the entire world, may become the foretaste and foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven. May this holiday be joyful and blessed! Peace of God, Christ is born!

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Concelebrating with His Holiness the Patriarch there were Very Reverend Archimandrite Danilo – Director of the Patriarchal Administrative Office; Hieromonk Nikon – the spiritual father of the Vavedenje Monastery in Belgrade; Protodeacons Dr. Dragan Radić and Radomir Vrućinić – Rector of the Theological Seminary of Saint Sava in Belgrade; with the prayerful participation of the Very Reverend Abbes Haritina and the sisterhood of Peć, clergy, monastics, and the pious faithful people. The Serbian Byzantine Choir Mojsije Petrović from Belgrade chanted during the divine service.