{"id":441382,"date":"2023-09-04T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=441382"},"modified":"2023-09-04T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:12:29","slug":"god-exists-intl-meeting-of-orthodox-youth-2023-pays-tribute-to-the-1989-heroes-who-prayed-under-bullets-in-timisoara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/god-exists-intl-meeting-of-orthodox-youth-2023-pays-tribute-to-the-1989-heroes-who-prayed-under-bullets-in-timisoara\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;God exists!&#8221; Int\u2019l Meeting of Orthodox Youth 2023 pays tribute to the 1989 heroes who prayed under bullets in Timi\u0219oara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Participants in the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) held in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, walked the <em>Friendship Procession<\/em> on Saturday. The procession ended in the city&#8217;s Opera Square with a tribute to the heroes of December 1989, who drove out atheist communism by praying under bullets in the very same place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Friendship Procession <\/em>was broadcast live on Facebook and Youtube by Trinitas TV, the television of the Romanian Patriarchate.<\/p>\n<p>Some young people wore traditional costumes and some groups sang religious hymns or folk songs during the procession.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_Ypd_RBDWw?si=MHM7C16PuwvYW4dP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The young people carried signs identifying their dioceses and flags personalized with the ITO 2023 logo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440686\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3-890x594.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-3-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The participants in the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) organized the <em>Friendship Procession<\/em> in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, on Saturday, September 2, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Metropolitan Ioan of Banat <\/strong>welcomed the participants in Opera Square, where he told them: &#8220;Dear young people, we are in one of the places where, \u00a033 years ago, the first words were: &#8216;God is with us&#8217; and &#8216;Down with communism&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here, young people like you from the student campuses and workers from Timi\u0219oara joined forces in peaceful protest at the Opera Square and the Metropolitan Cathedral. We have declared this space sacred since then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who climbed to the Opera balcony were not yet used to slogans and other political expressions, they only said what had been sown in their hearts by their parents. They hadn&#8217;t even studied Religion (in school &#8211; ed.), but, in a whisper, at home, their mother still taught them a prayer&#8221;, continued the Metropolitan of Banat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440688\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440688 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5-890x594.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-5-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metropolitan Ioan lit a candle for the heroes of the Romanian Revolution on Saturday, September 2, 2023, at Timi\u0219oara, on the occasion of the Friendship Procession held during the 2023 International Meeting of the Orthodox Youth 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Metropolitan invited Eng. Ioan Savu, a participant in the 1989 Revolution in Timi\u0219oara.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eng. Ioan Savu<\/strong>, who was 39 years old at the time of the 1989 Revolution, reminded the young people present at the event of a word by Fr. Dumitru St\u0103niloae, who said that, before God, we are responsible not only for our own being but also for the being of the nation, also given by God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We then understood this and set ourselves against those who were trying to take the country away from God,&#8221; said Ioan Savu. &#8220;I thank God for blessing me to live these tragic but dignified moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There were 200,000 people who rediscovered God then. We got down on our knees and shouted, <strong>&#8220;God exists!&#8221;<\/strong> and together we said &#8216;Our Father&#8217; as a sign of our trust and redemption,&#8221; Ioan Savu told the thousands of young people present at the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>He also told them that the purpose of life is to give life and that our purpose is to preach what is beneficial.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don\u2019t believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Walk in God&#8217;s way! It \u00a0is the only way that defines us as people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440690\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2-890x594.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-2-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>Friendship Procession<\/em> took place on Saturday, September 2, 2023, during the 2023 International Meeting of \u00a0Orthodox Youth held in Timi\u0219oara, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Metropolitan of Banat was joined by two other priests who took part in the 1989 Revolution: Father Constantin Jinga, shot on 17 December 1989, and Father Ioan Mura.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Ioan gave the young Romanians from the county of Maramure\u0219 a symbolic flag kept from the 1989 Revolution, telling them: &#8220;Keep it and fight under it so that God \u00a0\u00a0and the Mother of God will never again be driven out of our Romanian soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wave this flag in the remotest place of our country, and, from the Dniester to the Tisza River and from Khotyn to the sea, let us all be worthy people of faith, heirs of our Romanian traditions and life in Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the urging of the Metropolitan, the young participants in the <em>Friendship Procession<\/em> knelt in the Opera Square and said the &#8220;Our Father&#8221; prayer as a\u00a0sign of homage to those who said it under the bullets of the communist regime in December 1989.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440692\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440692 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4-890x594.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/procesiunea-prieteniei-ito-2023-timisoara-4-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the <em>Friendship Procession<\/em> organized on Saturday, September 2, 2023, within the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth, prayed in Timi\u0219oara city\u2019s Opera Square, as a tribute to the heroes of the December 1989 Revolution. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The procession ended at the Metropolitan Cathedral with a Commemoration service for the \u00a0heroes of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989.<\/p>\n<p>More photos here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/procesiunea-prieteniei-la-ito-2023-foto\/?swcfpc=1\">Procesiunea Prieteniei la ITO 2023 | FOTO<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>3,500 young people\u00a0<\/strong>aged between 16 and 35 took part in the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO), organized in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, between August 31 and September 3, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>They came from all the dioceses of the Romanian Patriarchate (including the Romanian communities around the country and those in the diaspora), but also from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Albania, the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia and the Archdiocese of Ohrid and North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>Young people were accompanied during the event by group leaders, who were priests from their dioceses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/tag\/ito-2023\/?swcfpc=1\">The theme of this year\u2019s ITO meeting\u00a0<\/a>was made of the words of our Saviour Jesus Christ to His disciples: \u201cYou are my friends\u201d. Previous editions have been held annually since 2014. The Timi\u0219oara meeting came after a four-year break due to the pandemic. The next edition will be held in Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Metropolitan Ioan asks Orthodox youth to form a human chain around those who risk being trafficked or using drugs\" href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-ioan-asks-orthodox-youth-to-form-a-human-chain-around-those-who-risk-being-trafficked-or-using-drugs\/?swcfpc=1\">Metropolitan Ioan asks Orthodox youth to form a human chain around those who risk being trafficked or using drugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Man\u2019s friendship with God, the surest light of life: 2023 Orthodox Youth Int\u2019l Meeting begins in Timisoara\" href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/mans-friendship-with-god-the-surest-light-of-life-2023-orthodox-youth-intl-meeting-begins-in-timisoara\/?swcfpc=1\">Man\u2019s friendship with God, the surest light of life: 2023 Orthodox Youth Int\u2019l Meeting begins in Timisoara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Patriarch Daniel at the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth 2023: The Church is called to convey to young people Christ\u2019s love\" href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-daniel-at-the-international-meeting-of-orthodox-youth-2023-the-church-is-called-to-convey-to-young-people-christs-love\/?swcfpc=1\">Patriarch Daniel at the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth 2023: The Church is called to convey to young people Christ\u2019s love<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Metr. Joachim of Bursa: International Meeting of Orthodox Youth proves the unifying power of Orthodoxy\" href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metr-joachim-of-bursa-international-meeting-of-orthodox-youth-proves-the-unifying-power-of-orthodoxy\/?swcfpc=1\">Metr. Joachim of Bursa: International Meeting of Orthodox Youth proves the unifying power of Orthodoxy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Urm\u0103re\u0219te-ne pe Telegram:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/basilicanews\">t.me\/basilicanews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) held in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, walked the Friendship Procession on Saturday. The procession ended in the city&#8217;s Opera Square with a tribute to the heroes of December 1989, who drove out atheist communism by praying under bullets in the very same place. 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