His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the patronal feast of St. Antimos Monastery in Bucharest on Sept. 27. He spoke about the achievements of the holy hierarch Anthimos, who was a collaborator of St. Constantine Brâncoveanu: he founded the first free public schools; he introduced Romanian in worship; he created…
France has become this year the seventh European country where schools have the option to teach the subject of Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization (LCCR). The optional subject will start in three schools from the city of Le Blanc-Mesnil, near Paris. “It is the first step, the first classes to be held in France with…
Hundreds of believers attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated in Romanian language last week at the Blachernae Church in Constantinople where St Andrew the Fool for Christ witnessed the Theotokos entering the church, surrounded by angels and saints. The feast of the Protection of the Theotokos celebrates the appearance of the Mother of God at Blachernae…
Romanian is among the top 20 spoken languages of the planet’s roughly 7,000, says president of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop. “Through our language we communicate and introduce ourselves to the world with the Romanian literature, in other words with that slew of worlds recreated by the Romanian writers, from the chroniclers onward. Of the…
At the end of St Basil’s Divine Liturgy celebrated Monday at the Patriarchal Cathedral, His Grace Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti read out the synodal document by which the Romanian Patriarchate officially declares 2018 Solemn Year of the Unity of Faith and Nation, and Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union Founders. Attending the…
The Day of National Culture was marked Sunday, 15 January 2017, at the Romanian Academy, where a solemn session was held focusing on national identity. The opening address was delivered by the President of the Romanian Academy, Ionel-Valentin Vlad, who spoke about the role of faith and language in the development of national identity. Our…
