{"id":273551,"date":"2020-03-09T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=273551"},"modified":"2020-03-09T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:04:11","slug":"hungarys-ambassador-to-holy-see-impressed-by-orthodox-chapel-at-bucharest-henri-coanda-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/hungarys-ambassador-to-holy-see-impressed-by-orthodox-chapel-at-bucharest-henri-coanda-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s ambassador to Holy See impressed by Orthodox chapel at Bucharest Henri Coand\u0103 Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

While at the \u201cHenri Coand\u0103\u201d International Airport in Otopeni, Eduard von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See, retreated to the airport chapel and posted a short message about it on a social network. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWant to know how to do a REAL airport Chapel? Go to Bucharest Airport… (including incense and sung prayer service),\u201d he wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of his followers added positive comments on his post: \u201cThat\u2019s awesome, so freakin\u2019 awesome,\u201d wrote an engineer from Texas, USA; \u201cBeautiful! How I wish we had these in North American airports!!\u201d added a Canada-born marriage and family therapist.<\/p>\n

An American woman wrote: \u201cNow that’s amazing. Look at this! I have a friend who was a stewardess and she used to hop into chapels all over the world to go to mass or to visit the Blessed Sacrament. Now I can see what she was talking about. Amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n

An educational expert from Great Britain added a famous quote by Russian writer Fyodor M. Dostoevsky: \u201cBeauty will save the world,\u201d while The Catholic Travel Guide asked for permission to use the ambassador\u2019s photos for its category of Airport Chapels Worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Around 150 airports in the world have chapels, yet most of them have a neuter look, being designed for multi-confessional prayer.<\/p>\n

The Chapel \u201cProphet Elijah\u201d is at the International Departures section of \u201cHenri Coand\u0103\u201d International Airport in Otopeni, which serves the Romanian Capital city of Bucharest. The chapel was consecrated in 2003 to cater for the travelers and the airport workers\u2019 spiritual needs.<\/p>\n

Here serves chaplain Costel Dinu. He declared for the Patriarchate’s Lumina Newspaper<\/a> that, in addition to the usual services, the chapel also holds the special services on the feasts of Resurrection, Christmas and Epiphany. On Easter, travelers and airport workers receive the Holy Fire and some of them even participate in the service which is held until dawn.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Orthodox chapel has an important missionary role and is also a visiting card for Romanian Orthodoxy in \u201cthe global village\u201d.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina \/ Mihnea P\u0103duraru<\/p>\n

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Want to know how to do a REAL airport Chapel? Go to ?? Bukarest Airport…<\/p>\n

(including incense and sung prayer service) pic.twitter.com\/BSKv94X7kM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n