Two young Mexicans were baptised Orthodox at the Church of St Joseph the Confessor in Cancun, marking a first for the Romanian Orthodox mission in the city.
The service took place last Saturday during the pastoral visit of Fr Daniel Ene, vicar of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas, who served last weekend both in Mexico and Ecuador.
One of the newly baptised received the name Antonio, under the patronage of St Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism. The other catechumen was given the name Moses, in honour of St Moses the Ethiopian, whose life illustrates the power of repentance and the transformation that God’s grace can bring to a person.
“For the community in Cancun, this day remains a milestone—not because it marks a beginning, but because it reveals a maturation of the mission and a genuine openness to the souls of the land,” representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis in the Americas said.
Fr Daniel Ene’s pastoral mission in Latin America continued on Sunday in Ecuador, at the Church of St Joseph of Partoș in Quito.
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