{"id":122142,"date":"2015-11-29T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=122142"},"modified":"2016-03-25T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:29:56","slug":"the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-monastery-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-monastery-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriarch of Romania at Cernica Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 29 November 2015, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, visited the monastic community of Cernica Monastery<\/em>, county of Ilfov, where he participated in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n

Human being can attain eternal life through mercy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Patriarch of Romania delivered the sermon of the day in which he showed that the Gospel text read today (Luke 18:18-27), on the 30th Sunday after Pentecost, describes mercy as a way to salvation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gospel text shows us that a human being can attain eternal life through mercy, by helping the poor. What we do notice especially is the sincere quest: the essential question of life that this rich young man or ruler \u2013 called \u201cyoung man\u201d in the Gospel according to Matthew and \u201crich ruler\u201d in the Gospel according to Luke \u2013 asks Christ, our Saviour. His question \u201cwhat must I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d is the most beautiful one; it is the essential question of the life of every human being living on earth. What must I do during my lifetime to attain eternal life? Thus, we see that the rich young man had a spiritual dissatisfaction and although he was very rich and has observed ever since his childhood or youth what the law commanded, although he was pious, moral and virtuous, he still had dissatisfaction. He felt he was not complete or fully happy, that his much wealth was not enough to fill his never ending aspiration of eternal life\u201d, <\/em>His Beatitude said. <\/p>\n

In the end, His Beatitude offered the monastery several theological and liturgical books. The gift was also occasioned by the celebration of the dedication day of the monastic settlement on this Thursday, when Saint Pious Gheorghe from Cernica<\/em> and C\u0103ld\u0103ru\u015fani Monasteries<\/em> is celebrated. Particles of his relics are kept in the church monastery.<\/p>\n

Situated only 12 km far in the east of Bucharest, Cernica Monastery<\/em> sprawls on two of the islands of Cernica lake. Founded by great village chief Cernica \u015etirbei and by his wife Chiajna, Cernica Monastery<\/em> is first documentary attested in 1608, in a princely document issued by ruler prince Radu \u015eerban.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 29 November 2015, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, visited the monastic community of Cernica Monastery, county of Ilfov, where he participated in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. Human being can attain eternal life through mercy At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Patriarch of Romania delivered the sermon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"better_featured_image":{"id":122143,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":478,"file":"2015\/11\/the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-890x415.jpg","width":890,"height":415,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-890x415.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"3.2","credit":"Ziarul Lumina al Patriarhiei Rom","camera":"NIKON D4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1399558982","copyright":"Ziarul Lumina, 2015. Toate drepturile rezervate.","focal_length":"14","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":122142,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the-patriarch-of-romania-at-cernica.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122142\/"}],"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=122142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122142\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122143\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=122142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=122142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=122142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}