Patriarch of Romania

Patriarch Daniel offers Myrrh-bearing Women as models for professing the faith in the risen Christ

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has sent a message for the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, April 22, 2018, expressing his gratitude for Christian women and mothers. The patriarch offers the Myrrhbearers as ‘true models inspiring women to live a holy, self-sacrificing life in the Family, the Church, and the Society.’ ‘Through faith and devoutness, through…

Apr 19, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel on Bright Friday: The risen Christ is the spring of our healing

In his homily delivered on Bright Friday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel referred to Christ as ‘the spring of our healing,’ stressing His unlimited love for humans. His Beatitude said that Christ the Lord ‘is not indifferent to human suffering, sickness, infirmity, and unfulfillment.’ Every time we entreat Him, Jesus Christ comes to our help ‘directly…

Apr 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

St Callinicus is a light for monastics, hierarchs, and believers, Patriarch Daniel says

‘Saint Callinicus of Cernica is a light for monastics, hierarchs, and lay believers. He is an embellishment of Romanian Orthodoxy and of the entire Orthodoxy,’ said Patriarch Daniel on Bright Wednesday at the Cernica Monastery near Bucharest. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel presided over the Divine Liturgy to commemorate 150 years since the falling asleep of…

Apr 12, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel reflects on joy and peace at Agape Vespers on Pascha Sunday

On Pascha Sunday His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel officiated the Agape Vespers at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, during which he offered his reflections on joy and peace as two great blessings of the risen Christ. Concelebrants for the Agape Vespers included Bishop Qais of Erzurum (Antioch Patriarchate), the Patriarch’s auxiliary bishops Varlaam of Ploiesti and…

Apr 10, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Thousands attend Paschal midnight service in Bucharest: ‘This feast gives a meaning to the whole existence’

Thousands attended the Paschal midnight service officiated by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Saturday night in Bucharest. Concelebrants for the service were His Grace Varlaam of Ploiesti, assistant bishop to the patriarch, and His Grace Timotei of Prahova, assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest. At midnight, the patriarch distributed to the believers the Holy Fire,…

Apr 10, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel welcomes Holy Fire: It is the tenth time we receive this great gift

“It is the tenth time we receive this great gift of blessing from the Holy Sepulchre of the Resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ,” His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said Saturday evening while welcoming to Bucharest the Romanian Patriarchate’s delegation bringing the Holy Fire from Jerusalem. “This Holy Light is a gift of the love of…

Apr 7, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Patriarch Daniel’s Easter Message 2018: Holy Easter is the celebration of life’s victory over death and the triumph of joy over sorrow (Video)

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania sent a video message for this year’s feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, stressing that ‘Holy Easter is the celebration of life’s victory over death and the triumph of joy over sorrow.’ The Romanian Patriarch called upon all the believers to offer merciful love, peace and joy to others,…

Apr 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

The purpose of Eucharist brings us joy, not the understanding of the miracle: Patriarch Daniel on Maundy Thursday

During his homily delivered at the Divine Liturgy on Maundy Thursday, Patriarch Daniel offered his reflections on the Last Supper and the eucharistic miracle. ‘It is a Mystery that we will never fully understand.’ ‘But what is it that brings joy?,’ the patriarch asked. ‘Nut the understanding of how the bread and wine become the…

Apr 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

A pilgrim is an earthly passenger to the Kingdom of Heaven – Patriarch Daniel

During the traditional Palm Sunday procession, Patriarch Daniel spoke to the believers noting that ‘all humans are passengers for here they do not have an enduring city, being oriented towards the Kingdom of Heaven.‘ ‘How much light we have spread, how many flowers of faith we have cultivated, how many flowers of charity we have…

Apr 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel attends Parliament joint sitting to mark 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended Tuesday the solemn sitting of the two chambers of Romania’s Parliament to mark the 100th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with the Mother Land. Romania’s Parliament endorsed a Declaration for the celebration of the Union between Bessarabia and the Mother Land, Romania, in 1918. “The Romanian Parliament constituted in…

Apr 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Academy: Patriarch Daniel offers two Romanian Saints as symbol of 1918 Great Union

During the scientific session in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania that took place on 27 March 1918, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel spoke at the Romanian Academy about the newly-glorified Romanian Saints Joseph the Merciful and George the Pilgrim, offering them as a symbol of the 1918 Great Union. ‘Two Romanian…

Mar 27, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu