{"id":188576,"date":"2018-02-22T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=188576"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:04:22","slug":"patriarch-daniel-officiates-great-canon-of-st-andrew-of-crete-great-lent-is-a-school-of-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-daniel-officiates-great-canon-of-st-andrew-of-crete-great-lent-is-a-school-of-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. \u2018Great Lent is a school of repentance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Repentance was the main theme of Patriarch Daniel\u2019s homily delivered Monday evening at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. \u2018The Great Lent is a school of repentance,\u2019 because it is \u2018a mystical partaking of the Saviour\u2019s forty-day fast,\u2019 and a struggle against the tendencies inherited from our first parents Adam and Eve, especially \u2018the tendency to accuse others and excuse ourselves,\u2019 the Patriarch of Romania said after having read out the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete on the first day of Lent.<\/h4>\n<p>His Beatitude told the believers attending the Great Compline at the Patriarchal Cathedral that \u2018fasting is the only way to regain paradise that was lost by our foreparents.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Although without sin, our Saviour fasted, prayed, and instructed us how to become obedient to God unto death \u2013 even death on a cross. The Old Adam\u2019s disobedience was healed by the obedience to God of the New Adam, Jesus Christ,\u2019 Patriarch Daniel explained Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ro_RO\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.12';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trinitastv\/videos\/814187092099289\/\" data-width=\"890\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trinitastv\/videos\/814187092099289\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trinitastv\/videos\/814187092099289\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slujba Pavecerni\u021bei Mari \u0219i a Canonului cel Mare al Sf\u00e2ntului Andrei Criteanul de la Catedrala Patriarhal\u0103 din Bucure\u0219ti #LIVE #19februarie<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trinitastv\/\">TRINITAS TV<\/a> on 19 Februarie 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Patriarch reflected on the etymology of the Greek word <em>metanoia<\/em> meaning \u2018a transformative change of the way we think, speak and live,\u2019 and pointed to \u00a0the fact that \u2018repentance means regret for the evil we have done, for our sins, and a decision to correct ourselves, for a new beginning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018However, this fight against sin is not a fight with sin within others, but a struggle with the sin within us. That is why, repentance is a difficult labour. Sometimes it is easier to fight your enemies rather than your sins,\u2019 the patriarch noted.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is a difficult and tiresome struggle, \u2018we should not be sad,\u2019 the patriarch said quoting the Gospel of Matthew, \u2018When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do\u2019 (Mt 6:16).<\/p>\n<p>Why we receive joy during the fasting season, the patriarch asked. It is because we love Christ, he said adding that \u2018beyond eating less, we give up food of animal origin and eat more vegetarian products, which give us a predisposition to prayer, to the relief from our selfish passions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Patriarch Daniel went on to highlight that fasting is a sacrifice in which our Saviour accompanies us:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We fast because we love our Saviour. Fasting is an offering, a sacrifice, a self-offering brought to Christ who sanctifies our life and partakes of our fasting. He helps us fast so that our fasting may not be a mere self-starvation, but rather a transformative change.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The patriarch said that this transformative change is manifested in the way of reasoning and living. \u2018We untie the bonds made by food when it becomes covetousness or a selfish passion, when we are more concerned of food and drink than of prayer and good deeds.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Above restraint from material nourishment, \u2018the fasting period ordained by the Church is a transformation of physical hunger and thirst into a hunger and thirst for God, a longing after God,\u2019 Patriarch Daniel added. \u2018If we fast but do not pray, our fast becomes very difficult. It represents a self-imposed ban without receiving anything in return.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When renouncing the material food without replacing it with a spiritual nourishment, the person who fasts becomes annoyed, agitated, disturbed, because they renounced something and received nothing in return,\u2019 the Romanian Patriarch cautioned. He went on to reflect on the lives of the great venerable hermits who fasted and proved that \u2018prayer gives energy \u2013 power from Christ\u2019s power.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is the true understanding of fasting: the conversion of the hunger of material things into a hunger for spiritual things,\u2019 the patriarch said closing his sermon.<\/p>\n<p>Patriarch Daniel encouraged all to read the Holy Bible and other spiritual books, to attend the divine services officiated during Great Lent, and to offer prayers, especially the Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by which we ask to be freed from four main passions: the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. We also ask for the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This Lenten Prayer is also called a seal of the whole repentance school during the Holy and Great Lent,\u2019 Patriarch Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>Ending his speech, the Patriarch of Romania prayed to our Lord Jesus Christ, who fasted for forty days, and to the all great saints who fasted \u2018to help us understand this period as a school of repentance and an ascent towards resurrection.\u2019<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188576 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1920x1280' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PF-Daniel-la-slujba-Canonului-Mare-Postul-Sfintelor-Pa\u0219ti-este-\u0219coal\u0103-a-poc\u0103in\u021bei-1.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" 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