{"id":317315,"date":"2021-05-04T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=317315"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:39:30","slug":"hg-ioan-casian-romanian-faithful-should-confess-their-faith-as-the-patron-saints-of-the-romanian-diaspora-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/hg-ioan-casian-romanian-faithful-should-confess-their-faith-as-the-patron-saints-of-the-romanian-diaspora-did\/","title":{"rendered":"HG Ioan Casian: Romanian faithful should confess their faith as the patron saints of the Romanian diaspora did"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Easter Pastoral Letter, Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada called upon the faithful to follow in the footsteps of the patron saints of the Romanian diaspora, taking them as their models.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet us also become steadfast confessors of the Orthodox faith, outstanding representatives of our traditional Christian values proven by time and experience, and let us learn from every good thing something useful to us and others,\u201d emphasizes the hierarch in his Easter Pastoral Letter.<\/p>\n

2021 is the \u201cSolemn Year of the pastoral care of the Romanians outside Romania\u201d and its representative icon<\/a> shows three saints of Romanian origins: St John Cassian, St John Jacob the New Chozebite and St Dionysius Exiguus.<\/p>\n

They have been chosen as patron saints of the Romanian diaspora for having born the same cross of living abroad and being buried outside the native Romanian lands.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. John Cassian (360-433),<\/em> who is also one of the protectors of our Diocese, grew up in the spirit of Dobrogean monasticism, attended the school of the great Egyptian monasticism, becoming an important spiritual author and intellectual reference for Christian life in the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. John Jacob the New Chozebite (1913-1960),<\/em>\u00a0a descendant of the Neamt monasticism, rigorous and ascetic, endeavored and achieved sainthood by living in the Holy Land, putting in verse and prose his experiences, thoughts and reflections that form a healthy spiritual foundation for a modern world in continuous quest and renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Dionysius Exiguus (470-544)<\/em>, visibly marked our world by establishing the calendar of our era, counting the years since the birth of Christ.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His Grace said that year 2021 \u201cis a year in which we think more about our role as Christians here and now\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to be in closer communion with the people back home. It is a time when we must think about the values that have constituted the foundation for our identity as Romanian Orthodox Christians, and for our existence and permanence in history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cChurch, family and school<\/em>\u00a0are the three values or elements on which our Christian consciousness and our formation for life were based. The Church has given us the sense of permanence, dignity and ethics, as well as the spiritual elevation; the family has given us the possibility of communion and a sense of belonging to a common origin; the school has prepared us for life, making us citizens of this world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read here<\/a> the integral text of the Pastoral Letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his Easter Pastoral Letter, Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada called upon the faithful to follow in the footsteps of the patron saints of the Romanian diaspora, taking them as their models. \u201cLet us also become steadfast confessors of the Orthodox faith, outstanding representatives of our traditional Christian values proven by time and experience, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":304644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23164,2016,10386,246,4794,15383,25182],"class_list":["post-317315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-bishop-ioan-casian-of-canada","tag-diaspora","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romania","tag-romanian-diaspora","tag-romanian-orthodox-diocese-of-canada","tag-romanians-in-canada"],"better_featured_image":{"id":304644,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1000,"height":666,"file":"2021\/01\/ocrotitori-diaspora.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"ocrotitori-diaspora-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ocrotitori-diaspora-890x593.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"ocrotitori-diaspora-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ocrotitori-diaspora-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Luigi Ivanciu","camera":"NIKON D850","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1609770578","copyright":"Ziarul Lumina","focal_length":"35","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":304498,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ocrotitori-diaspora.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317315\/"}],"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=317315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317315\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304644\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=317315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=317315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=317315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}