{"id":264983,"date":"2019-12-18T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=264983"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:10:11","slug":"holy-synod-members-congratulate-patriarch-daniel-on-name-day-metr-andrei-a-powerful-patriarch-for-difficult-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-members-congratulate-patriarch-daniel-on-name-day-metr-andrei-a-powerful-patriarch-for-difficult-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Synod members congratulate Patriarch Daniel on name day. Metr. Andrei: \u201cA powerful patriarch for difficult times\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Patriarch of Romania on Tuesday honoured his patron saint the Prophet Daniel in liturgical communion with the members of the Holy Synod, who shared their best wishes for the Patriarch\u2019s name day at the end of the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Romanian hierarchs concelebrate with Patriarch Daniel on His Beatitude’s name day. \u00a9 Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the Divine Liturgy, the Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramures and Satmar officiated a Doxology as a token of gratitude to God for the protection and help offered to Patriarch Daniel in serving the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

A powerful patriarch for difficult times<\/h4>\n

In his speech, Metropolitan Andrei stressed that the current leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church is \u2018a powerful patriarch in difficult times.\u2019<\/p>\n

His Eminence entitled his speech \u2018A man loved by God.\u2019 He congratulated the Patriarch linking His Beatitude\u2019s ministry with the activity of the Holy Prophet Daniel, who was \u2018a powerful prophet for difficult times.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would not be honest if we did not recognize that the times we live are difficult. Not only when we refer to the economic situation, but also to the spiritual life. In the atmosphere of secularization, attitudes against the Church are increasingly frequent. The Head of the Church is His Beatitude. And at the peak, ultimately, all the evils are felt most strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan of Cluj said that we are living the last times about which Abba Pambo said that \u2018the love most will grow cold, and there will be unbelief, defilement, hatred, enmity, envy, upstirrings, thefts and drunkenness.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

“The times must be confronted and defeated,” the hierarch continued. “The flag bearer in this struggle is His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, a powerful Patriarch for difficult times.”<\/p>\n

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Metropolitan Andrei conveys congratulatory message on behalf of Holy Synod. \u00a9 Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Metropolitan recalled that one of the “strongholds that the Patriarch of Romania raised in the way of ephemerality that could drown us” is the Romanian People\u2019s Salvation Cathedral – “this foundation for eternity, as His Beatitude likes to call it.”<\/p>\n

“With all his openness to the world, to European values and to ecumenism, our Patriarch remains rooted in the tradition of his predecessors,” added the Metropolitan of Cluj, eulogizing the portrait of the current leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church:<\/p>\n

\u2018The Patriarch is an imposing, wise, firm, settled, serene, figure, clear in thought, slightly prophetic, affable, connected with his nation with the seal and purpose of faith, good to eminent, theologian, a consummate humanist, able to renounce the privilege of voluntarism of illusion and external freedom, ordering his entire life in such a way that in the world he serves there are no mistakes that have to be corrected.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018In the turmoil of the times, the attitude of His Beatitude is of great profit to us,\u2019 said the Metropolitan of Cluj recalling the positions taken in the defence of religious education in public schools, the law on the freedom of religion and the general status of denominations in Romania, in regaining church properties, the remuneration of the clergy and the safeguarding of the traditional family.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan wished the Patriarch “Many and happy years!” and presented the Patriarch with an icon of the Lord Jesus Christ and flowers on behalf of the members of the Holy Synod.<\/p>\n