{"id":316533,"date":"2021-05-01T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=316533"},"modified":"2021-05-01T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:20:56","slug":"through-the-holy-baptism-we-are-chosen-to-witness-and-proclaim-the-resurrection-metropolitan-nicolae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/through-the-holy-baptism-we-are-chosen-to-witness-and-proclaim-the-resurrection-metropolitan-nicolae\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Holy Baptism we are chosen to witness and proclaim the Resurrection: Metropolitan Nicolae"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly those chosen by Christ to be the witnesses of His Resurrection can also be the preachers of this miracle. Christ appeared to the myrrh-bearers, the apostles, the disciples and lastly to St. Paul,\u201d writes<\/a> the Romanian Metropolitan of the two Americas<\/strong> in his Easter Pastoral Letter. \u201cWe too are following in the footsteps of those who met the Risen Christ, we who seek salvation in the Church,\u201d he adds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe too have received the grace of Holy Baptism, and we are chosen through the Mystery of Chrismation to be witnesses and proclaimers of the Resurrection. And we must labor to work with the grace that is in us, just like St. Paul the Apostle,\u201d points the hierarch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ministry is the purpose of the Christian life. Our faith has as its foundation the Resurrection of Christ and is fulfilled through faith in our own resurrection,\u201d mentions Metropolitan Nicolae.<\/p>\n

Our Saviour Jesus Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice to God the Father, restoring our communion with God and thus vanquishing death \u201eas defeat of human living, that is, eternal separation from God, ending in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChrist rises from the tomb and brings us all to the life of communion with God, to the eternity of the Kingdom of the Father in the joy of our Lord,\u201d affirms the hierarch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also writes about the Christians’ attitude towards life and death: \u201cChrist first conquered, as man, the fear of death in the Garden of Gethsemane, then sin on the Cross, in order to finally conquer death through the Resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, he adds, \u201cOur resurrection already in this life refers to victory over all the fears that we find around us, including that of sickness and death, and resurrection with Christ through life in Christ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Romanian Metropolitan of the two Americas has wished the faithful to be strengthened in this belief and to witness it to those who are still frightened and lacking in understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI urge you through word and deed to bring light and hope<\/em> to those around you and to those still suffering these days,\u201d concludes the metropolitan.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Basilica.ro (archive)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnly those chosen by Christ to be the witnesses of His Resurrection can also be the preachers of this miracle. Christ appeared to the myrrh-bearers, the apostles, the disciples and lastly to St. Paul,\u201d writes the Romanian Metropolitan of the two Americas in his Easter Pastoral Letter. \u201cWe too are following in the footsteps of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":316530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25608,4144,4145,10386,17702],"class_list":["post-316533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-easter-2021","tag-metropolis-of-the-americas","tag-metropolitan-nicolae","tag-orthodox-news","tag-pastoral-letter"],"better_featured_image":{"id":316530,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":939,"height":528,"file":"2021\/05\/IPS-Nicolae.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"IPS-Nicolae-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IPS-Nicolae-890x500.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"IPS-Nicolae-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IPS-Nicolae-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1477834424","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"160","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":316533,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IPS-Nicolae.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533\/"}],"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=316533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316530\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=316533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=316533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=316533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}