{"id":381920,"date":"2022-07-19T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=381920"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:48:13","slug":"in-pictures-tomis-archbishop-clergy-and-believers-offer-prayers-for-rain-to-break-the-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/in-pictures-tomis-archbishop-clergy-and-believers-offer-prayers-for-rain-to-break-the-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Tomis Archbishop, clergy and believers offer prayers for rain to break the drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Starting last Friday, the archbishop, clergy, monastics and lay believers of the Archdiocese of Tomis are going into the fields to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arhiepiscopiatomisului.ro\/posts\/pfbid0UXCKB1JCPtUAFkPqq4R6pptRTzhNGhGXvrotkgQyxzLaTS2X6R9u3TrVayjVisiAl\">pray for rain<\/a> to break the drought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kneeling on the ground, His Eminence Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis fervently asked God to stop the drought.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381644\" style=\"width: 1781px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381644 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1781\" height=\"1002\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis praying for rain, Friday, July 15, 2022. Photo: Tomis Archdiocese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Priests went out into the fields or near wells, officiating the services provided for this situation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381646\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381646 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Friday, July 15, 2022, the Archdiocese of Tomis started the prayer program for drought relief. Monks, clergy and faithful go out to pray in the fields. Photo: Tomis Archdiocese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prayer for rain will continue in the archdiocese according to the following schedule:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381650\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ierarhul-clericii-si-credinciosii-din-eparhia-tomisului-se-roaga-pe-campuri-pentru-ploaie-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381650 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ierarhul-clericii-si-credinciosii-din-eparhia-tomisului-se-roaga-pe-campuri-pentru-ploaie-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tomis Archdiocese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>every day, services will be held in churches with special petitions for drought relief;<\/li>\n<li>on Wednesday, July 20, and Friday, July 22, prayers for rain will be offered in the fields near parishes and monasteries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381648\" style=\"width: 1194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"895\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmers in Romania have been asking the government to declare a state of calamity by the end of the month due to the persistent drought affecting numerous parts of the country. Photo: Tomis Archdiocese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Special litanies are said in every church after the Romanian Patriarchate published an <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-patriarchate-urges-prayer-for-drought-relief\/?swcfpc=1\">appeal for prayers to end the drought<\/a> so that God may send a quiet rain for the excellent fruitfulness of the earth.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-381920 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1031x464' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-3.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-3-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1400x1050' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-5.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-5-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1200x900' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-9.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-9-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='900x1200' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-10.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-10-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='900x1200' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-11.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-11-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1200x1600' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-7.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-7-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='900x1200' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-8.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-8-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='1600x1200' href='https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-07-15-at-16.21.32.jpeg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-07-15-at-16.21.32-360x360.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Photography courtesy of the Tomis Archdiocese<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting last Friday, the archbishop, clergy, monastics and lay believers of the Archdiocese of Tomis are going into the fields to pray for rain to break the drought. Kneeling on the ground, His Eminence Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis fervently asked God to stop the drought. Priests went out into the fields or near wells, officiating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27951,27972],"class_list":["post-381920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-drought","tag-prayers-for-rain"],"better_featured_image":{"id":381643,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1400,"height":788,"file":"2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului.jpg","filesize":274354,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":123465,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":154166,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":38518,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1657912199","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":381920,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/rugaciuni-pentru-ploaie-in-arhiepiscopia-tomisului.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381920\/"}],"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=381920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381920\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381643\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=381920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=381920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=381920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}