{"id":316673,"date":"2021-05-01T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=316673"},"modified":"2021-05-01T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:23:47","slug":"the-patriarch-received-the-holy-fire-christ-is-the-joyful-light-who-shows-his-love-to-those-who-look-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/the-patriarch-received-the-holy-fire-christ-is-the-joyful-light-who-shows-his-love-to-those-who-look-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriarch received the Holy Fire: Christ is the Joyful light, Who shows His love to those who look for Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Holy Fire reached the Patriarchate Hill on Saturday, at 19:30 and it was handed to Patriarch Daniel. His Beatitude said the Holy Fire is the Joyful light from one of the oldest hymns of the Church. \u201cChrist the Lord is the Joyful Light,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod, Who is Himself inaccessible light, made Himself Joyful light by taking flesh, which meant making Himself into what He loved: becoming man,\u201d said the patriarch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis joyful light, which miraculously comes every year, is comfort, joy and peace from Christ Himself, by which He shows His love and appreciation for those who look for Him, who believe in Him and who love Him and want to feel His presence in their life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Patriarch of Romania explained that the Holy Fire emerges from the rock on the Saviour&#8217;s Sepulchre after the Patriarch of Jerusalem says a special prayer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_316637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316637\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-316637 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-126-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-316637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn Jerusalem, this Joyful light reveals itself indeed as comforting since, in the first moments, it does not burn and people touch it and even caress their faces with it,\u201d mentioned Patriarch Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2009, we have considered that the Joyful light from the Holy Sepulchre needed to be brought to Romania in order to increase the Romanians&#8217; devoutness and love for Christ after they would be able to feel that God loved them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider this blessing to be encouraging, even more so today, when the world is under the heavy trial of the pandemic,\u201d said the Patriarch of Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Fire reached the Patriarchate Hill on Saturday, at 19:30 and it was handed to Patriarch Daniel. His Beatitude said the Holy Fire is the Joyful light from one of the oldest hymns of the Church. \u201cChrist the Lord is the Joyful Light,\u201d he said. \u201cGod, Who is Himself inaccessible light, made Himself Joyful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":316640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[25608,1434,10386,66,246],"class_list":["post-316673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messages-and-addresses","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-easter-2021","tag-holy-fire","tag-orthodox-news","tag-patriarch-daniel","tag-romania"],"better_featured_image":{"id":316640,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1400,"height":933,"file":"2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-127.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Lumina-Sfanta-127-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-127-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Lumina-Sfanta-127-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-127-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Lumina-Sfanta-127-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-127-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"Mircea Florescu","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark IV","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1619890955","copyright":"BASILICA.RO","focal_length":"50","iso":"5000","shutter_speed":"0.003125","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Lumina-Sfanta-127.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316673\/"}],"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=316673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316673\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316640\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=316673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=316673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=316673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}