{"id":545271,"date":"2025-10-24T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=545271"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:28:33","slug":"archbishop-atanasie-national-cathedral-consecration-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/archbishop-atanasie-national-cathedral-consecration-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Atanasie: The National Cathedral’s consecration will be a moment when heaven and earth embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The consecration of the iconography in Romania\u2019s National Cathedral<\/a> will be a moment when \u201cheaven and earth once again touch in a mysterious embrace of grace,\u201d said Archbishop Atanasie, head of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in a message<\/a> ahead of the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Archbishop, Sunday\u2019s celebration represents \u201cGod\u2019s answer to the prayer of a people \u2014 a people who have borne their cross with dignity through the waves of history, who have built light from suffering and victory from tears.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archbishop Atanasie noted that the Cathedral stands as a symbol of community and communion:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cathedral is not raised against anyone, but for everyone \u2014 for those of yesterday who fought and sacrificed; for those of today who seek meaning in the world; and for those of tomorrow who will learn here that a people lives through faith and is saved through communion and self-giving.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He added that it is \u201ca Cathedral of identity and hope, a Cathedral of unity in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder its vaults, the prayer for the nation will unite with the prayer for the world, and the remembrance of heroes will remain a lesson in eternity \u2014 for death does not have the last word, but sacrificial love,\u201d the Archbishop concluded.<\/p>\n

Photo: \u00a0Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu
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The consecration of the iconography in Romania\u2019s National Cathedral will be a moment when \u201cheaven and earth once again touch in a mysterious embrace of grace,\u201d said Archbishop Atanasie, head of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in a message ahead of the event. According to the Archbishop, Sunday\u2019s celebration represents…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":538713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32362],"tags":[33729,8502,886,34123,32502],"class_list":["post-545271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-cathedral","tag-archbishop-atanasie","tag-communion","tag-national-cathedral","tag-national-cathedral-consecration","tag-romanian-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545271","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=545271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}