{"id":334241,"date":"2021-09-17T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=334241"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:05:22","slug":"banat-metropolitan-urges-support-for-single-mothers-they-could-bring-up-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/banat-metropolitan-urges-support-for-single-mothers-they-could-bring-up-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Banat Metropolitan urges support for single mothers: They could bring up Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Do not avoid single mothers&#8221;, was the exhortation of Metropolitan Ioan of Banat on the feast day of Saint Joseph the New of Parto\u0219, the spiritual protector of Timi\u0219oara and the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lend them a helping hand if possible, because they may, in their suffering and tribulation, bring up Saints, just as St. Joseph&#8217;s mother did,&#8221; His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan said Sept. 15, Glasul cet\u0103\u021bii reports.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of believers gathered on Wednesday at the Orthodox Cathedral of Timi\u0219oara to honour Saint Joseph the New.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333629\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333629 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-092556-890x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Glasul Cet\u0103\u021bii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The celebrations started on Tuesday evening with the traditional procession. The relics of Saint Joseph were carried on the streets of Timisoara to the sound of religious hymns and accompanied by lighted torches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333627\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333627 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-whatsapp-image-2021-09-15-at-091529-890x668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Glasul Cet\u0103\u021bii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Metropolitan Ioan presided over the festal Divine Liturgy. Concelebrants for the Divine Liturgy included Archbishop Timotei of Arad, Bishop Siluan of Hungary, Assistant Bishops Paisie of Lugoj and Emilian of Cri\u0219ana.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Joseph the New reposed in the Lord in 1656. In 1950, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided to canonize him and relocate his relics from the church of Partos monastery to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timisoara.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333631\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333631 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-084221-890x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Glasul Cet\u0103\u021bii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The solemn proclamation of his canonization took place in Timi\u0219oara 300 years after his blessed repose, on October 6-7, 1956. This year marks 65 years since the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Glasul Cet\u0103\u021bii<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasilicaNews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not avoid single mothers&#8221;, was the exhortation of Metropolitan Ioan of Banat on the feast day of Saint Joseph the New of Parto\u0219, the spiritual protector of Timi\u0219oara and the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in the city. &#8220;Lend them a helping hand if possible, because they may, in their suffering and tribulation, bring up Saints,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":333626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3939,26448,26466],"class_list":["post-334241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-romanian-saints","tag-saint-joseph-the-new","tag-single-mothers"],"better_featured_image":{"id":333626,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1980,"height":1485,"file":"2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"3492-20210915-091346-1-890x668.jpg","width":890,"height":668,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1-890x668.jpg"},"large":{"file":"3492-20210915-091346-1-1024x768.jpg","width":1024,"height":768,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1-1024x768.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"3492-20210915-091346-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"3492-20210915-091346-1-1536x1152.jpg","width":1536,"height":1152,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1-1536x1152.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":334241,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3492-20210915-091346-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334241\/"}],"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=334241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334241\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333626\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=334241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=334241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=334241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}