Father Dumitru Stăniloae of blessed memory reposed in the Lord on the evening of October 4-5, 1993.
His daughter, Lidia Stăniloae, recounted the last words spoken by the great Romanian theologian before his death.
“… Let us get out of here, let us get out of here, let us get out of here, let us get out of here… Get us out of here, Lord… Get us out of here; we don’t want to stay here, we don’t want to stay here, we don’t want to stay here… Lord, get us out of here…
We’re talking about You, Lord… We’re talking for You, Lord…, …We’re talking for You, Lord…, …We’re talking for You, Lord…
Full of grace and truth, we wake from sleep, we are no longer asleep…
Mother of God, let us get out of here… Let us get up… Mother of God, we don’t want to stay here anymore… Mother of God, we don’t want to stay here anymore… Mother of God, we don’t want to stay here anymore… We don’t want to stay here anymore in sleep…
Until when shall we stay? …Until when shall we stay? …Until when shall we stay? …We don’t want to stay here anymore… We don’t want to stay here anymore… We don’t want to stay here anymore…
Full of grace and truth…
…Woe, woe, woe… Woe, woe, woe… We want to rise… Full of grace… We have clothes… We have clothes… Lord… Full of grace and truth… Full of grace and the willingness to speak, and the word of truth…
We speak of you, Lord…
…willingly… Full of grace and truth… Come… Come… Come… Full of grace and truth. Come… Come… Come… Come… Let us rise… Let us rise… Let us talk… Come on, Lord… Come on… Come on… Let us talk… Come on, Lord… Come on… Come on… Let us talk… Come on… Come on, Lord… Come on… Let us talk…”
Exerpt from Lidia Staniloae’s book „Lumina faptei din lumina cuvântului. Împreună cu tatăl meu, Dumitru Stăniloae” (The light of the deed from the light of the word. Together with my father, Dumitru Stăniloae)
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