{"id":293530,"date":"2020-10-05T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=293530"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:36:40","slug":"in-pictures-bp-macarie-to-the-romanians-in-sweden-we-are-a-family-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/in-pictures-bp-macarie-to-the-romanians-in-sweden-we-are-a-family-of-families\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures | Bp Macarie to the Romanians in Sweden: \u201cWe are a family of families\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe visited last weekend two Romanian parishes in the southern part of Sweden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the hierarch officiated the Sacrament of the Holy Unction at Helsingborg, and on Saturday he celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Lund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great joy when I see the children that we have clothed with Christ,\u201d the Romanian Bishop noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a spiritual family, a family of families navigating the ocean of foreign lands. But in the Church we always feel at home\u201d &#8211; which can be seen in the photos published by the Diocese of Northern Europe:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293379\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293379 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Helsingborg-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293381\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293381 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/120609559_1829193217235084_724408178973517445_o-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little ones usually enjoy the sweet gifts brought by the bishop, while their elders are involved in the holy services. \u00a9 Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293383\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293383 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/120825490_1829193373901735_8450601437971271212_o-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romanians from Sweden keep the tradition of going to church dressed in national costume. \u00a9 Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Locals are also interested in Orthodox life, even though polls say they are the least religious people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293385\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293385 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/120769539_1829193577235048_8227865337592441482_o-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swedish patron of a bakery, who has hired many Romanians, wanted his business to be blessed by Bishop Macarie. \u00a9 Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293387\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293387 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/120840912_1829193483901724_6924904022360010134_o-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe family of families\u201d in Lund. \u00a9 Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bjNoAbn_w_Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of the Diocese of Northern Europe (article opening)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Thank you for reading Basilica.ro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Please follow us on Twitter @BasilicaNews.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe visited last weekend two Romanian parishes in the southern part of Sweden. On Friday, the hierarch officiated the Sacrament of the Holy Unction at Helsingborg, and on Saturday he celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Lund. \u201cI feel great joy when I see the children that we have clothed with Christ,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":293378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13626,15333,24256,10386],"class_list":["post-293530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-bishop-macarie","tag-diocese-of-northern-europe","tag-orthodox-church-of-romania","tag-orthodox-news"],"better_featured_image":{"id":293378,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1820,"height":1213,"file":"2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei-1536x1024.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":293530,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PS-Macarie-la-romanii-din-sudul-Suediei.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293530\/"}],"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\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=293530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293530\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293378\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=293530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=293530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=293530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}