The memory of Saint Silouan the Athonite, a Russian orthodox monk who was an ascetic of Holy Mount Athos and passed away on 24 September 1938, was also celebrated at the Diocesan Centre of Gyula, where a Maramure\u0219 style wooden parekklesion (chapel) is dedicated to this saint, as informed by the Press Office of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in Hungary.<\/p>\n
In the memory of Saint Silouan, on the eve of the feast of Saint Silouan, His Grace Siluan, Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Hungary, officiated the all-night Vigil service along with clergy of the Diocesan Centre, while on the feast day there was officiated the hierarchal Divine Liturgy. Together with the Romanian hierarch also served Archimandrite Calinic Covaci, administrative-ecclesiastical adviser of the Diocese, Fr Florin Olteanu, Dean of Gyula and parish priest in K\u00e9tegyh\u00e1za, and Deacon Emanuel V\u0103duva; the liturgical responses were given by the nuns of the Diocesan Centre. <\/p>\n
In his sermon, His Grace Bishop Siluan expressed his joy for properly celebrating at this wooden parekklesion of Gyula, dedicated to the Protection of the Theotokos and the St Silouan the Athonite, the memory of the Russian monastic, who lived a simple life, from many points of view, but who deep in his soul followed with much humbleness the laborious but blessed way of sanctification, acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit and showing himself to be a teacher of divine love for many humans and peoples, who found and loved St Silouan the Athonite, especially through his writings, which were brought to light by his apprentice, Fr Sophronius Sakharov, former Abbot of Essex Monastery, in England.<\/p>\n
St Silouan\u2019s importance for today\u2019s world is even greater because of the incredible trials that he went through, but which he had also surpassed through God\u2019s grace, much perseverance and patience, and which made him able to experience and to convey to people an inspired teaching revealed by Christ our Lord, a word that inspires hope in our difficult times: \u201cKeep thy mind in hell and despair not<\/em>\u201d! This means that through the help of the All-good God we can overcome any difficulty that stands before us, by abiding in His love.<\/p>\n The Maramure\u015f style wooden parekklesion represented one of the most important stages of a more ample over-border European project, including the restauration of the Episcopal Cathedral of Gyula, the establishment of a parish centre and a museum at Oltaca Pusta <\/em>Parish in Hungary, the creation of a park near Mic\u0103laca Veche II Church in Arad (Romania). This was a common project of the Archdiocese of Arad, the Romanian Orthdox Episcopate of Hungary and the Public Foundation of Developing Otlaca Pust\u0103 town (Hungary).<\/p>\n On the feast of St Silouan the Athonite, His Grace Bishop Siluan celebrated his Holy Protector and the name day, offering a reception to the guests after the Divine Liturgy at the Diocesan Centre.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The memory of Saint Silouan the Athonite, a Russian orthodox monk who was an ascetic of Holy Mount Athos and passed away on 24 September 1938, was also celebrated at the Diocesan Centre of Gyula, where a Maramure\u0219 style wooden parekklesion (chapel) is dedicated to this saint, as informed by the Press Office of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate"],"better_featured_image":{"id":120029,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":683,"file":"2015\/09\/the-memory-of-st-silouan-the.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"the-memory-of-st-silouan-the-890x594.jpg","width":890,"height":594,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-memory-of-st-silouan-the-890x594.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"the-memory-of-st-silouan-the-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-memory-of-st-silouan-the-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"16","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D5200","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1443095537","copyright":"","focal_length":"22","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":120028,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-memory-of-st-silouan-the.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120028\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=120028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120028\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120029\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=120028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=120028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=120028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}