{"id":385206,"date":"2022-08-10T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=385206"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:05:19","slug":"patriarch-of-romania-celebrates-35th-anniversary-of-his-monastic-tonsure-at-cernica-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-of-romania-celebrates-35th-anniversary-of-his-monastic-tonsure-at-cernica-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch of Romania celebrates 35th anniversary of his monastic tonsure at Cernica Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the patronal feast of Cernica Monastery on Saturday, August 6. The monastic community congratulated the Patriarch of Romania on the 35th anniversary of his monastic tonsure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated by an assembly of priests, including Archimandrite Nectarie \u0218ofelea, Exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, and Protosyncellus Vasile P\u00e2rjol, abbot of Cernica monastery.<\/p>\n

The Patriarch of Romania offered his reflections<\/a> on the significance of Tabor light and its connection with prayer. He also made a brief incursion into Romanian hesychasm, which included two former abbots of Cernica monastery, Saints George and Callinicus of Cernica.<\/p>\n

As a token of appreciation for the work of this monastery, Patriarch Daniel presented the monastery with natural frankincense from Oman and several religious books.<\/p>\n

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Patriarch Daniel presented abbot Vasile Pirjol with the 12 volumes of the Romanian Philokalia. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Patriarch\u2019s gifts included the complete series of the Romanian Philokalia, the Jubilee Edition, and the most recent edition of the Great Book of Hours, published this year by the Biblical and Orthodox Mission Institute, The Hymns of Divine Love by St. Simeon the New Theologian and Selected Writings of St. Gregory Palamas, published by the Basilica Publishing House of the Romanian Patriarchate, as well as a volume about Saint George the Archimandrite (1730-1806), abbot of Cernica and C\u0103ld\u0103ru\u0219ani Monasteries, an innovator of Romanian hesychasm, coordinated published by the Publishing House of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Beatitude, we thank the Lord for all the gifts poured out on this monastery, but also for the gifts from Your Beatitude. Furthermore, we thank the faithful who participate daily and at every feast in all the church services and embellish the liturgical life of this monastery, together with the monastic community,\u201d Abbot Vasile P\u00e2rjol said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must recall that Your Beatitude has revived the ancient custom of celebrating the patronal feast given to this church by St. Callinicus of Cernica, the feast of the Transfiguration, which is a feast of Hesychasts, and it is not by chance that this feast was given to this church, because Cernica was a strong spiritual hesychastic centre,\u201d the abbot added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso related to this spiritual event, I believe that Your Beatitude also remembers the moment when, 35 years ago, in another Hesychast monastery, under the mantle of a Hesychast priest, Father Cleopas, you received the angelic schema. We wish you good health, many years and a blessed shepherding at the helm of the Church,\u201d Protosyncellus Vasile P\u00e2rjol said and presented the Patriarch of Romania with flowers.<\/p>\n

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Patriarch Daniel venerating the holy relics of Saint Callinicus of Cernica, August 6, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe thank the Abbot and the monastic community, and all those who contributed to the embellishment of today\u2019s Divine Liturgy, the priests, Exarch Nectarie \u0218ofelea, and you, who are the flowers of faith gathered in prayer like these flowers gathered in this bouquet,\u201d the Patriarch replied, addressing the faithful.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u201cThe flowers of living and prayerful faith are the faithful. They give beauty to the church, in addition to the beauty of the iconography and the divine services. May you live many blessed years,\u201d Patriarch Daniel concluded.<\/p>\n

Participants in the Divine Liturgy received from His Beatitude a prayer card depicting the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.<\/p>\n