{"id":483176,"date":"2024-06-05T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=483176"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:28:10","slug":"metropolitan-of-bessarabia-we-must-give-children-the-spiritual-nourishment-they-need-like-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-of-bessarabia-we-must-give-children-the-spiritual-nourishment-they-need-like-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan of Bessarabia: We must give children the spiritual nourishment they need like air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;To reap the spiritual fruits of tomorrow, we must sow the seeds of Christ\u2019s teachings in the souls of the little ones today. We must offer children the spiritual nourishment they need as much as they need air to raise a healthy generation in the spirit of Christian teachings,\u201d Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia highlighted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a message for Children\u2019s Day (June 1) and Parents\u2019 and Children\u2019s Sunday (June 2), His Eminence Metropolitan Petru urged parents and grandparents to offer children \u201cmore love and comfort, to spend more time with them, to help them distinguish between good and evil, between light and darkness, and to cherish the spirituality and traditions of the Romanian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Eminence prayed to the risen Lord Jesus Christ \u201cto enlighten and fill with peace and joy the souls of parents, children, young people, and all those who help them be a blessing for the Romanian people!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let us heed the words of our Savior Jesus Christ: \u201c<b>Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.<\/b>\u201d (Matthew 19:14).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis exhortation shows us that the Christian education of children and young people becomes a sacred duty for the Family, School, and Church,\u201d the hierarch further noted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church established that the first Sunday in June would be dedicated in the Romanian Patriarchate to all mothers, fathers, and their children raised and educated in the light of faith in God.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of the Metropolis of Bessarabia<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on X.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To reap the spiritual fruits of tomorrow, we must sow the seeds of Christ\u2019s teachings in the souls of the little ones today. We must offer children the spiritual nourishment they need as much as they need air to raise a healthy generation in the spirit of Christian teachings,\u201d Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia highlighted. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25825,31435,234,2007],"class_list":["post-483176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-international-childrens-day","tag-metropolitan-of-bessarabia","tag-romanian-patriarchate","tag-sunday-of-parents-and-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}