Homily of the Ecumenical Patriarch at the Holy Sepulchre

If you haven't yet read the Ecumenical Patriarch's homily at the Holy Sepulchre, here's a link to it as reported by the Catholic news service Zenit.

In my view, the article got it exactly right in highlighting this quote from the homily:

Lastly, this sacred Tomb invites us to shed another fear that is perhaps the most prevalent in our modern age: namely, fear of the other, fear of the different, fear of the adherent of another faith, another religion, or another confession. 

Here in Finland we see these fears every day. The just-completed European parliamentary elections have shown us the power of fear of the other and the different. The Ecumenical Patriarch's homily speaks directly to us here in Finland. He challenges us as Orthodox Christians to give our society clear, courageous examples of  freedom from these fears and freedom for living courageously in love towards all in our society.