On 18 December 2014, the patriarchal chapel dedicated to Saint Gregory the Enlightener, Saint Elijah Tishbite the Prophet, and Saint Pious Daniil the Hermit within the Patriarchal Residence celebrated one of its saint patrons: Saint Pious Daniil the Hermit celebrated today in the Orthodox Church.
His Grace Timotei Prahoveanul, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest celebrated the Divine Liturgy assisted by a group of priests and deacons.
Saint Daniil the Hermit is a model of holiness, healer of diseases and wise adviser
The Patriarch of Romania showed in the sermon delivered on the occasion that Saint Daniil the Hermit, celebrated today in our Church, is a model of holiness, healer of diseases and wise advisor.
“We celebrate a saint of our nation who showed in his life the dearest thing of Orthodoxy, namely holiness. He also showed how much a holy man spiritualised through prayer, fasting and reading the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the saints could help. The more he avoided the world to have peace and quiet, the more the people wanted to meet him. He avoided the people, but the people came to meet him because they felt the work of the Holy Spirit in this spiritualised man”, His Beatitude said, according to Trinitas Radio station.
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has also explained the term of hermit (hysichast).
“The word comes from isihastirion, which means the place where those who wanted to have peace and quiet lived. What does this peace mean? It means calming down the passions, thoughts, words and behaviour through the work of the prayer. This is not the peace of modern type. The peace in “isihie” was not a sort of meditation of Asian or modern type but effort in prayer till the deep deification of the conscious and of the subconscious, of the soul and of the entire human being, the deification of the thoughts and senses, and of the deification of the relation with God and with the fellow beings”, His Beatitude said.
During the Divine Liturgy, the young theologian Stan Ilie Iulian was ordained deacon for the parish of Popa Tatu, within the deanery district 1of Bucharest.
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On 30 September 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of one year since the enthronement of His Beatitude Daniel as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the new patriarchal chapel was consecrated and dedicated to Saint Gregory the Enlightener, Saint Prophet Elijah Tishbite the Prophet, and Saint Pious Daniil the Hermit, and seated in the tower of the patriarchal residence renovated and re-arranged.
