{"id":533332,"date":"2025-07-09T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=533332"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:45:40","slug":"bishop-teofil-superficial-faith-sermon-leganes-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/bishop-teofil-superficial-faith-sermon-leganes-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Teofil of Iberia urges believers to reject superficial faith during Sunday sermon in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLet us flee from a formal and superficial faith,\u201d urged<\/a> His Grace Bishop Teofil of Iberia, Assistant Bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal, on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his homily delivered at the Parish of Saint Athanasius the Athonite in Legan\u00e9s, Spain, the bishop underscored the living faith of the centurion highlighted in the Gospel reading for the day.<\/p>\n

He pointed out the centurion\u2019s noble virtues\u2014unshakable faith, sacrificial love, and deep humility\u2014which moved him to pray not for himself, but for a mere servant, while also deeming himself unworthy to receive the Saviour in his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaith, love, and humility are the gifts praised by the Lord in the centurion, yet sadly, these are not always present in the lives of today\u2019s Christians,\u201d Bishop Teofil noted.<\/p>\n

The hierarch also connected the Gospel message with the life of Saint Athanasius the Athonite, the parish\u2019s patron saint, and Saint Dometius the Merciful of R\u00e2me\u021b, whose canonisation was solemnly proclaimed on the same day at R\u00e2me\u021b Monastery.<\/p>\n

Both saints, said the bishop, lived authentic Christian lives, adorned with humility and acts of mercy, becoming a \u201csource of eternal joy for our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: Diocese of Spain and Portugal<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet us flee from a formal and superficial faith,\u201d urged His Grace Bishop Teofil of Iberia, Assistant Bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal, on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost. In his homily delivered at the Parish of Saint Athanasius the Athonite in Legan\u00e9s, Spain, the bishop underscored the living faith of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":533078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14307,35482,33732,35508],"class_list":["post-533332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-bishop-teofil-of-iberia","tag-saint-dometius-the-merciful-of-ramet","tag-sunday-sermon","tag-superficial-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533332","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=533332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}