His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel offered a New Year’s message on January 1, following the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, during a solemn ceremony marking the proclamation of 2026 as the Solemn Year…
In his New Year message, Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada wrote about the idea of renewal and about the family as a place of spiritual and communal renewal. His message opens with a quotation from…
On the occasion of International Children’s Day and Parents and Children’s Sunday, which this year coincides with the great feast of Pentecost, Patriarch Daniel of Romania conveyed a powerful message on the spiritual role of…
„Among people, the one who helped Baby Jesus the most was Righteous Joseph,” said Patriarch Daniel on Sunday. „Joseph was not the father of the Baby, who is born eternally from the Father without a…
The Ministry of Family, Youth, and Equal Opportunities has welcomed the decision by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church to designate 2026 as the “Solemn Year of Pastoral Care for the Christian Family”…
The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate officially declared 2026 the Solemn Year of Christian Family Ministry and the Commemorative Year of Holy Women in the church calendar (Myrrh-bearers, Martyrs, Venerable Women, Wives, and Mothers). The Holy Synod…
“The family is a ‘sacred and blessed reality without which the normality of human life cannot be conceived,’ affirmed Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina in a video message ahead of the 2024 Family Festival.…
On the occasion of the Sunday of Parents and Children, observed in the Romanian Patriarchate on the first Sunday following June 1, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has sent a message to Christian families. The Patriarch…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message occasioned by the Sunday of Parents and Children (June 6, 2021). He emphasized the need to reaffirm the crucial role of the family in raising and educating children…
The International Day of Families is marked annually on May 15, while the Romanian Orthodox Church has dedicated to Christian families the Sunday which is closest to the same date. In his most recent message,…