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The Patriarch of Romania: ”While forgiving others human being’s humbleness and inner freedom are cultivated”

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania urged the Orthodox Christians to be forgiving, showing that, as Christ taught us, “forgiveness is the good beginning of the Lent”. “While forgiving others the inner humbleness and freedom of the human being willing to live in the merciful love of God are cultivated”, His Beatitude also said. The…

Mar 13, 2016basilica.ro

Romanian President visits the Representation of the Romanian Patriarchate to Jerusalem

His Excellency Romanian President Mr Klaus Iohannis and his wife, Carmen Iohannis, visited on Tuesday, 8 March 2016, the Representation of the Romanian Patriarchate to Jerusalem. The Romanian President and his delegation were encountered by the V. Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, Superior of the Romanian Settlements in the Holy Land, together with the members of…

Mar 8, 2016basilica.ro

The Patriarch of Romania: “The ultimate criterion of the last Judgement is love”

The last criterion of the Last Judgement is love. It was with this sermon that His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, blessed the faithful on the Sunday of the Last Judgement or Meat-fare Sunday. The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and His Grace Timotei Prahoveanul, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, celebrated the…

Mar 6, 2016basilica.ro

Patriarch of Romania: „For the Church, any kind of communication must be also a confession”

The Patriarch of Romania transmitted the mass-media representatives of the Orthodox Eparchies of Romania the fact that for the Church, any kind of communication must be also a confession. These words were said on the occasion of the meeting between His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and the mass media persons in…

Mar 4, 2016basilica.ro

The Romanian Patriarch: “The spiritual father is a doctor who heals spiritual wounds”

17 priests from the Archdiocese of Bucharest were invested spiritual fathers on Wednesday, 02 March 2016. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Ortodox Church, officiated the service in the historical Parekklesion of the Patriarchal Residence dedicated to St Great Martyr George. The spiritual father is a doctor who heals spiritual wounds In his word,…

Mar 2, 2016basilica.ro

Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Romania on an Presentation Visit to the Romanian Patriarchate

On 1 March 2016, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received His Excellency Mr Mile Vasić, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Romania, on a presentation visit. Mr Ambassador expressed his gratitude to have been received at the Romanian Patriarchate and made a brief statistic presentation of the religious configuration of his country, which has overcome the…

Mar 1, 2016basilica.ro

Divine Liturgy at „Saint Spyridon the New” Cathedral in Bucharest

Sunday, 28 February 2016, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated, at “Saint Spyridon the New” Cathedral in Bucharest, patriarchal chapel, with the blessing of the Patriarch of Romania, by His Grace Ioan Casian of Vicina, Assistant bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Americas, together with a group of priests and deacons. After reading the…

Feb 28, 2016basilica.ro

His Eminence Nicolae: „We must build for our Children a Parental Home and a Spiritual Home, which is the Church

On the 34th Sunday after Pentecost, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral by His Eminence Nicolae, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of the Americas, assisted by a group of priests and deacons. After reading the text of the Gospel according to Saint Luke 15:11-32, His Eminence delivered a sermon in which he underlined the…

Feb 28, 2016basilica.ro

The Patriarch of Romania blesses the painting of St Great Martyr Dimitrios Church in Afumaţi

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, blessed on Sunday, 28 February 2016, the painting of the St Great Martyr Dimitrios church – Afumaţi II, Ilfov North Deanery. His Beatitude dedicated this church to St Hierarch Pahomius of Gledin, Bishop of Roman too, whose feast day is on April 14th. Before the blessing…

Feb 28, 2016basilica.ro

Sermon of the Patriarch of Romania on the Sunday of the Return of the Prodigal Son

Sermon of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on the Sunday of the Return of the prodigal Son (text reviewed on 28 February 2016) The soul is resurrected from spiritual death through repentance The 34th Sunday after Pentecost (return of the Prodigal Son), Luke 15:11-32: Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger…

Feb 28, 2016basilica.ro

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church opens its session in Bucharest

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has opened its working session this morning, 25 February 2016, in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chairs the Holy Synod in accordance to the Statutes of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the introductory word addressed to the members of…

Feb 25, 2016basilica.ro