Orthodox Christian Journalist, keen on foreign languages, diplomacy, int'l relations, reading and travelling | Director of
@BasilicaNews
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I'm deeply worried and saddened that during the first week of
#Lent
an Orthodox Church in Bucharest (Titan park) was vandalized.
Vandals spray painted the church with
#BLM
and
#LGBT
messages, including "Be Gay, Do Crime."
A Greek chanter’s son and a child chanter himself, Gerasimos joined us at the chant stand for the all-night vigil and Divine Liturgy in honour of the Prodromitissa icon of the Theotokos and St Paisios of Mount Athos.
Just listen 🎧 and be amazed!
Feast of St Paisios of Mount Athos celebrated with all-night vigil and hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Annunciation Cell of Lakkoskete.
Saint Paisios pray for us!
Next generation of Romanian Saints, and probably the first Orthodox Saints of the 21st century, already painted with a halo at the chapel of Bucharest’s National Cathedral.
These new saints will be canonised next year.
The young talented Lebanese singer and chanter Ribale Wehbé visited the
@BasilicaNews
room. I asked her to chant my favourite megalynarion to the Theotokos (Axion estin) in Arabic and she accepted 😇
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church will convene next week. The agenda includes a proposal to add my beloved St John Maximovitch the Wonderworker in the local church calendar. He is already very popular among Romanians. Not to mention I have his icon in every room.
They are three of the twelve confessors of Orthodoxy during communism whose Sainthood will probably be proclaimed in 2025.
📔Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae
🙏Elder Cleopas Ilie
⛪Elder Gherasim Iscu
#thegoodtoknow
You know you’re in the right city when this happens: shopping centre in Bucharest displays icon of the day’s saints Raphael and Parthenios of old Agapia
Moldovita Monastery is one of the eight painted churches included on
#UNESCO
World Heritage Sites, all masterpieces inspired by the Byzantine art of the 15-16th centuries. Their distinctive element – the external walls covered with frescoes representing complete religious cycles
A person made this replica of the National Cathedral in Bucharest from matches 🥢 🔥
The machstick art piece will be on display at the National Cathedral's future museum.
Here’s a sneak peek at the iconography of the new church at Nicula Monastery.
Nicula is famous for its wonderworking icon of the Theotokos that gathers tens of thousands of pilgrims every year on the feast of the Dormition.
This means Byzantine music:
Tronos choir conducted by Archdeacon
@BucaMihail
interprets the canon to Saint Demetrius the New at the Patriarchal Palace.
Standing on the side of almost every road in Romania, there are either memorial crosses or small chapels dedicated to different Saints to bless travellers
The ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria expresses its deepest sorrow at the synodal decision of the Russian Patriarchate to establish an Exarchate within the normal limits of the jurisdiction of the Ancient Church of Alexandria:
Pre-canonisation icons of Elders Cleopas Ilie of Sihastria, Dionysios Ignat of Colciu, and Petronius Tanase of Prodromos Skete.
These where painted at the workshops of Vatopedi Monastery and were presented today to His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel by Abbot Ephraim.
Tomorrow is the first official feast of St Sophrony the hesychast and theologian of Essex. I don't know why but I really feel a subtle, strong joy.
St Sophrony, pray for us!
St Constantius, father of St Gregory Palamas, was a senator of Emperor Andronicus II the Palaiologus (1282-1328) but also a great hesychast.
He is an inspiration for all those who work in high administrations that fervent prayer is possible.
Holy Palamas Family pray for us!
The beautiful church of Mirauti, Suceava, has the depiction of all kings of Israel in a semi-Byzantine painting made by the famous brothers Jobs from Vienna. It also contains the depiction of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, under whose rule the church was restored.
A beautiful pre-canonisation icon of Saint Gherasim Iscu the Confessor of Tismana Monastery.
Fr Gherasim (Gerasimus) died on Christmas Day 1951 at Targu Ocna prison. He is one of the 20th-century Romanian martyrs who suffered under the communist regime.
Extremely impressed and happy to venerate the relics of one of the greatest saints of Christianity, Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Saint Augustine, pray for us!
Age of generally recognised Orthodox Primates:
Patr Bartholomew 83
Patr Theodore 68
Patr John 68
Patr Theophilos 71
Patr Kirill 76
Patr Porfirije 61
Patr Daniel 71
Patr Neophyte 77
Patr Ilia 90
Abp George 74
Abp Ieronymos 85
Metr Sawa 85
Abp Anastasios 93
Metr Rastislav 45
Probably the first Romanian Saint ever photographed:
Saint Andrew Șaguna, photo taken at Băile Herculane in 1864-1865.
(To be noted that the first picture in Bucharest was taken around 1850)