{"id":185330,"date":"2017-12-27T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=185330"},"modified":"2017-12-28T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:36:38","slug":"in-new-interview-patriarch-daniel-speaks-about-the-national-cathedral-as-a-mandate-from-predecessors-assumed-together-with-the-clergy-and-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/in-new-interview-patriarch-daniel-speaks-about-the-national-cathedral-as-a-mandate-from-predecessors-assumed-together-with-the-clergy-and-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"In new interview, Patriarch Daniel speaks about the National Cathedral as a mandate from predecessors, assumed together with the clergy and believers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patriarch Daniel has given an interview to the Romanian public television (TVR) to mark his tenth anniversary of patriarchal ministry. In the first part of the interview broadcast in the TVR religious show The Universe of Faith<\/em> (Universul credin\u021bei), the Patriarch recalled how the Romanian Orthodox Church was in 2007 and pointed to the reason of building the National Cathedral.<\/h4>\n

Reviewing the ten years of patriarchal ministry, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel explained that in 2007 the Romanian Orthodox Church \u2018was continuing its course, but at the same time was intensifying its pastoral, missionary, and social-philanthropic activities.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the beginning of his ministry, the Patriarch identified the need to build places of worship and to intensify Orthodox youth education.<\/p>\n

\u2018First, we needed new places of worship, especially in new neighborhoods. Second came youth education, because young people wanted to have more knowledge regarding the faith. We were all impressed that during the 1989 Revolution many young people who did not attend religious education classes at school prayed, said the \u201cOur Father\u201d, manifested their faith inherited from their families and through the discreet but also efficient work of many parish priests.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Our priorities were the exterior church and the inner church, namely to build churches and to spiritually edify\u2019 the souls of the faithful.<\/p>\n

Another priority pointed out by the Patriarch in his interview was \u2018the Romanian diaspora, but also a more efficient pastoral organization.\u2019 The Patriarch noted that he had \u2018a greater concern for the Romanians in the diaspora because migration has become a new phenomenon unknown to our Church in such a large proportion, especially after 2000.\u2019<\/p>\n

On the one hand, the patriarch focused on the urgent needs to be solved at home, and on the other hand, he was greatly concerned with the Romanians living around the country and in the Western Diaspora.<\/p>\n