{"id":312299,"date":"2021-03-16T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=312299"},"modified":"2021-03-16T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:24:09","slug":"bishop-ignatie-recommends-digital-fasting-we-will-realize-how-drugged-we-are-using-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/bishop-ignatie-recommends-digital-fasting-we-will-realize-how-drugged-we-are-using-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Ignatie recommends digital fasting: We will realize how \u201cdrugged\u201d we are using technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Ignatie spoke on Sunday evening, at the Diocesan Cathedral in Hu\u0219i, about the need to practice giving up addictive habits, such as addiction to digital media: \u201cThe purpose of fasting is not exclusively to give up, but to change some habits that turn us into slaves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDigital media fasting will help us realize how addicted we are, how \u2018drugged\u2019 we are using technology. Technology is a blessing, but it matters a lot how we use it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Hu\u0219i proposed giving up digital applications and online information consumption in the first week of Great Lent.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s not use digital media at all, turn off social networks, block them and use only the phone for communication. That way, we will discover the intensity with which we are attached to them,\u201d His Grace said March 14.<\/p>\n

The hierarch quoted Marshall McLuhan: \u201cHe says that he who is passionately attached to technology, is \u201cdrugged\u201d by it and has his eyes glued to the screen, he resembles Narcissus – the one who looked into the water and, seeing his own face, he froze.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo are we, when we have phones or any kind of gadget in our hands. We are like Narcissus,\u201d the bishop continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology changes our thinking,\u201d Bishop Ignatie cautioned. \u201cIf, for example, we used to take a book in our hand and sit with it for a few hours, now we think \u2018WhatsApp-like\u2019. We can no longer concentrate and let ourselves be absorbed.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Bishop of Husi officiated the Vespers of Forgiveness, at the end of which the Canon of the Resurrection is sung, and the embrace and forgiveness of the faithful in the church take place. The tradition is recorded by Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, who also wrote the life of Saint Mary of Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we cannot forgive – as Saint Maximus the Confessor says – without passion. We fail to forgive without any kind of evil in our souls, without any reproach to the one who comes to ask our forgiveness,\u201d His Grace Bishop Ignatie noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiving forgiveness to those around us means we have no reason to do so,\u201d he added. \u201cLove is a gift; we give it to those around us; it is not conditioned by anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Hu\u0219i Diocese<\/p>\n

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Bishop Ignatie spoke on Sunday evening, at the Diocesan Cathedral in Hu\u0219i, about the need to practice giving up addictive habits, such as addiction to digital media: \u201cThe purpose of fasting is not exclusively to give up, but to change some habits that turn us into slaves.\u201d \u201cDigital media fasting will help us realize how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11853,25268,25093,15937],"class_list":["post-312299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-bishop-ignatie","tag-digital-fasting","tag-great-lent-2021","tag-social-media-addiction"],"better_featured_image":{"id":312181,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1410,"height":793,"file":"2021\/03\/eph_2733_optimized.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"eph_2733_optimized-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/eph_2733_optimized-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"eph_2733_optimized-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/eph_2733_optimized-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"eph_2733_optimized-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/eph_2733_optimized-360x360.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":312299,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/eph_2733_optimized.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312299\/"}],"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\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=312299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312299\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312181\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=312299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=312299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=312299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}