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The Saint Photios National Shrine successfully hosted its annual observance of the Ecclesiastical New Year Indiction 2025 & Environmental Protection, highlighted this year by a national response to the 2025 Patriarchal Encyclical of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The encyclical, issued September 1, called for “ecological repentance” and a renewed commitment to protecting creation as a sacred gift of God.