On 18 March 2010, the weekly working session of the Standing meeting of the Church National Council was held in the Synodal Room of the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.

During the first part of the proceedings, when the Standing Eparchial Council of the Archdiocese of Bucharest took also part in, the participants discussed the stage of the preparations for the Palm Sunday Pilgrimage to be organised on Saturday, 27 March 2010, the preparation and consecration of the Holy Great Myrrh (to be consecrated during the hierarchic Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Patriarchal Cathedral, on Thursday, the Holy Week, 1 April 2010), as well as the Holy Light from Jerusalem to be brought on the occasion of the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord 2010. BASILICA Press Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate will provide detailed information on the three religious events.

We mention some of the decisions of the Standing meeting of the Church National Council:
1. On the occasion of the Romanian Orthodox events, the message of the Patriarch of Romania will have priority before other messages or speeches in order to observe the institutional-canonical order and the protocol regulations;
2. Drafting a Dictionary For History And Philosophy Of Religions under the supervision of Rev. Univ. Prof. Dr. Nicolae Achimescu, titular of the discipline History and Philosophy of Religions from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of “Dumitru Stăniloae” of Iaşi city. The Dictionary will be a necessary instrument of work in the following fields:
- didactic – theological for the professors, students and pupils from the Faculties of Orthodox Theology and from the Theological Seminaries;
- media – journalistic for the journalists of the religious and lay press;
- educational – religious for the Religion classes in the public schools;
- pastoral – missionary in the context of the religious pluralism of the world today.