{"id":402490,"date":"2022-11-18T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=402490"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:23:47","slug":"neamt-monastery-celebrates-st-paisius-velichkovsky-in-300th-year-since-his-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/neamt-monastery-celebrates-st-paisius-velichkovsky-in-300th-year-since-his-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Neam\u021b Monastery celebrates St. Paisius Velichkovsky in 300th year since his birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina celebrated<\/a> on Tuesday the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Paisius at Neam\u021b Monastery in northeastern Romania, where the great saint served as abbot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Met. Teofan was joined by His Eminence Metropolitan Philip\u2014the Ukrainian hierarch of St. Paisius\u2019 hometown of Poltava\u2014and several other hierarchs from the Romanian Orthodox Church: Bishop Nicodim of Severin and Strehaia, Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia, Auxiliary Bishop Nichifor of Boto\u0219ani (Archdiocese of Ia\u0219i) and Auxiliary Bishop Benedict of Bistri\u021ba (Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj).<\/p>\n

Among the faithful present at the feast were the participants in an international symposium<\/a> dedicated the St Paisius of Neam\u021b at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina celebrated on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Paisius Velichkovsky at Neam\u021b Monastery, Romania. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Pr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His Grace Benedict of Bistri\u021ba spoke about St. Paisius\u2019 great longing to serve the Lord fully and become everything that a man can be in the Lord. St. Paisius wasn\u2019t satisfied with just a little, the hierarch emphasized.<\/p>\n

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HG Benedict of Bistri\u021ba at the Divine Liturgy celebrated on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, for the feast of St. Paisius Velichkovsky at Neam\u021b Monastery, Romania. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Pr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Metropolitan Teofan implored the faithful to always be grateful to God for the great gift given to the Christian world, including Moldova and Neam\u021b Monastery, through the great St. Paisius.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe liturgical conscience of the Church calls St. Paisius the candlestick of light, the vessel of prayer, the source of virtue, the one who reached divine and true knowledge through the gift of God. The hymns of the Church show that he fulfilled the will of God and transformed the land of Moldova into Heaven, his heart became Heaven, with the throne of the Holy God in the midst of it,\u201d His Eminence said.<\/p>\n

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Metropolitan Philipp of Poltava and Mirgorod spoke of St Paisius of Neam\u021b, the great hesychast born in his eparchy at the patronal feast of Neam\u021b Monastery, Romania, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Pr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Paisius is recognized as the founder of the spirituality that then developed in the 17th-18th centuries, Met. Philip of Poltava said.<\/p>\n

Abbot Benedict of Neam\u021b Monastery emphasized that the brotherhood \u201clives in the spirit of the great hesychast.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina celebrated on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Paisius Velichkovsky at Neam\u021b Monastery, Romania. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Pr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the Liturgy, a new section of the monastery museum was blessed and dedicated to St. Paisius.<\/p>\n

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M\u0103n\u0103stirea Neam\u021b \u0219i-a serbat hramul de toamn\u0103 mar\u021bi, 15 noiembrie 2022, prilej cu care a fost inaugurat\u0103 o sec\u021biune a muzeului m\u0103n\u0103stirii dedicat\u0103 Sf. Paisie de la Neam\u021b. Foto: Doxologia.ro \/ Pr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, the great monastic father who is largely responsible for the hesychastic revival throughout Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

An international\u00a0symposium<\/a>, \u201cThe Spiritual and Cultural Heritage of St. Paisius of Neam\u021b: 300 Years Since His Birth (1722-2022),\u201d was also held in Ia\u0219i from November 13 to 16, with participants from nine countries.<\/p>\n

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St Paisius Velichkovsky, <\/strong>also known in Romania as Venerable Paisius of Neam\u021b, was born in Poltava, Ukraine, on December 21, 1722, and was the spiritual disciple of Venerable Vasile of Poiana M\u0103rului. He coordinated an intense activity of translation and publication in Romanian and Slavic of the Philokalic writings of the Holy Fathers.<\/p>\n

He is one of the three spiritual patrons of the Commemorative Year 2022, dedicated to prayer and Hesychast saints in the Romanian Patriarchate. The other two patrons of the year are\u00a0Saints Symeon the New Theologian and Gregory Palamas.<\/p>\n