This year, the pilgrimage organised in Bucharest on the occasion of the Lord’s entry in Jerusalem will begin Saturday, 27 April 2013, 15.00 hours, with the Vesper service celebrated on the platform of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation (or at the patriarchal chapel of the “Resurrection of the Lord” if raining). <\/p>\n
After the service, the thanksgiving prayer for the works done to infra-structure of the future Cathedral will be celebrated, the willow branches will be consecrated, and then the pilgrims will set off according to the following programme: the first stop will be at 17.10, at the chapel of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation, and then will continue to Calea 13 September St., Libertatii Ave. and Regina Maria Ave.; the second stop will be at 17.30 hours, at “Saint Nicholas” – Vladica church, and then will continue on 11 Iunie St, Principatele Unite St. Enachita Vacarescu St. and Sfanta Ecaterina St.; the third stop will be at 17.45 hours, at “Saint Ecaterina” academic chapel, and will continue on Bibescu Voda St., then on Patriarchate Hill; the pilgrimage ends at 18.00 hours, at the Patriarchal Cathedral, where the pilgrims will be met and blessed by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church – as “Lumina” newspaper informs us. <\/p>\n
The spiritual significance of the Palm Sunday Pilgrimage<\/p>\n
The Palm Sunday pilgrimage takes place after 40 fasting days, days of repentance, lowliness and crucifixion of the bad deeds done. The participation on the Palm Sunday pilgrimage represents the participation of the faithful in the life of the Church. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church shows in the book entitled “Hunger and Thirst of God – Meaning and Utility of Fasting” (Basilica publishing house of the Romanian Patriarchate, Bucharest, 2010 pages 180 – 181), that “the icons and flowers taken in procession symbolise the light and virtues gathered in the souls through the fasting efforts. The spiritual utility of the pilgrimage can be expressed in simple words: a procession of faith confession, strengthening the parishes in fraternity, a sign of freedom and of the desire to find holiness, an opportunity to meditate on our life as a passage, an anticipation of the Holy Easter, a blessing for the city and a joy of Christian feast”. <\/p>\n
Palm Sunday pilgrimage is organised for the sixth time in the Archdiocese of Bucharest, first initiated in 2008. Similar pilgrimages are organised on “Lasarus’ Saturday” in all the eparchies of the country. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This year, the pilgrimage organised in Bucharest on the occasion of the Lord’s entry in Jerusalem will begin Saturday, 27 April 2013, 15.00 hours, with the Vesper service celebrated on the platform of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation (or at the patriarchal chapel of the “Resurrection of the Lord” if raining). After the service,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate"],"better_featured_image":{"id":74604,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":414,"file":"2013\/04\/palm-sunday-pilgrimage-organised-for-the.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"palm-sunday-pilgrimage-organised-for-the-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/palm-sunday-pilgrimage-organised-for-the-360x360.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":74603,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/palm-sunday-pilgrimage-organised-for-the.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603\/"}],"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\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=74603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74604\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=74603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=74603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=74603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}