{"id":534599,"date":"2025-07-16T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=534599"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:51:28","slug":"bishop-ignatie-passions-dehumanize-spiritual-struggle-sermon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/bishop-ignatie-passions-dehumanize-spiritual-struggle-sermon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Ignatie warns passions dehumanize and urges spiritual struggle against sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passions bring unrest, fear, and dehumanization, warned Bishop Ignatie of Hu\u0219i during his homily on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPassions, you must know, never bring peace. No sin can give peace. They bring unrest, fear, and a state of dehumanization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why\u2014as Saint Dumitru St\u0103niloae tells us\u2014the devils, just as they fell from their status as angels to demons, strive to bring us down from true and authentic humanity and prevent us from achieving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey dehumanize us, turn us into non-humans, just as they, from angels of light, became angels of darkness. They work hard, with our consent\u2014it does not happen without our free will\u2014to dehumanize us,\u201d Bishop Ignatie explained.<\/p>\n

How Should We Relate to Technological Progress?<\/h2>\n

The bishop emphasized that the Church is not against technological or material progress but warns about how people relate to these things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Church is not against progress, nor against the conveniences we can all enjoy\u2014atheists and agnostics try to manipulate that narrative. The Church highlights a pathological attachment to material things, to consumerism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever the center of a person\u2019s life shifts from God to material things, man turns into a demon,\u201d Bishop Ignatie remarked.<\/p>\n

Not Becoming Slaves to Passions<\/h2>\n

He continued, saying that passions steal human freedom, turning people into tools:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sign by which we can tell this is happening is that whenever we are dominated by a passion, we practically become a tool of that passion. Our freedom is stolen; we no longer have the capacity to rise above all that is sinful. Instead of mastering passions and restraining from them, we let them rule over us, becoming their slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Importance of Struggle<\/h2>\n

In conclusion, the bishop emphasised that regaining one’s footing after falling into sin and fighting against passions is valued by Christ and should be the believer\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be in communion with one another, but it\u2019s up to us when we decide to fall into the pit, even if we need someone to help us get up,\u201d Bishop Ignatie concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay Christ grant us wisdom and give us this spirit of struggle. This is what God values most in man, along with a state of repentance. We fall, but we must have the strength to rise and correct ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: Diocese of Hu\u0219i<\/p>\n

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Passions bring unrest, fear, and dehumanization, warned Bishop Ignatie of Hu\u0219i during his homily on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. \u201cPassions, you must know, never bring peace. No sin can give peace. They bring unrest, fear, and a state of dehumanization,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is why\u2014as Saint Dumitru St\u0103niloae tells us\u2014the devils, just as they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11853,35576,35577,33732],"class_list":["post-534599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-bishop-ignatie","tag-dehumanization","tag-spiritual-struggle","tag-sunday-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534599","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=534599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}