gratitude

Christ urges us to be the hands of His merciful love – Patriarch Daniel

In his homily delivered Sunday at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel spoke about gratitude and mercy stressing that ‘our Saviour Jesus Christ urges every one of us to be the hands of His merciful love.’ On the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, July 15, 2018, Patriarch Daniel presided over the Divine Liturgy…

Jul 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Life and health are gifts from God, not our rights: Patriarch Daniel on Sunday of the Blind Man

‘Existence and health are not our own right, they are gifts,’ Patriarch Daniel stressed in his Sunday Gospel delivered at St Spyridon Cathedral in Bucharest in which he reflected on the healing of the blind man. He said we must keep and cultivate these gifts, and that we should thank God and our neighbours for…

May 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel offers Myrrh-bearing Women as models for professing the faith in the risen Christ

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has sent a message for the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, April 22, 2018, expressing his gratitude for Christian women and mothers. The patriarch offers the Myrrhbearers as ‘true models inspiring women to live a holy, self-sacrificing life in the Family, the Church, and the Society.’ ‘Through faith and devoutness, through…

Apr 19, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Official Meeting on the 10th anniversary of Patriarch Daniel’s enthronement. ‘We thank God and the people God works through’

‘We thank God and the people God works through,’ Patriarch Daniel said during the festive meeting held Thursday at the Romanian Saints Hall of the patriarchal residence in Bucharest. On 30 September 2017, His Beatitude Daniel celebrates his 10th anniversary of the enthronement as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The first event to mark…

Sep 29, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel on self-denial: ‘It means the renunciation of selfish love in order to acquire a humble, grateful love towards God’

In his Sunday homily, Patriarch Daniel reflected on the main theme of the day’s Gospel reading from Mark in which Christ calls us to self-denial. His Beatitude stressed that in order to attain to salvation, Christ asks us to renounce the selfish love in order to acquire the humble, grateful love towards God and the…

Sep 18, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch urges Romanians abroad to gratefully honour the confessors of Orthodox faith

On the Sunday of Romanian migrants, which will be celebrated this year on August 20, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, addresses the Romanian clergy and faithful living abroad, urging them to honour with gratitude the memory of all those who have professed Orthodox faith during difficult times. Please find below the…

Aug 17, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

‘We should accompany the preaching of merciful love with the practice of merciful, humble love toward our fellows’, Patriarch Daniel says

On Sunday, Patriarch Daniel said that through gratefulness and merciful love we become co-workers with God. His Beatitude offered his reflections on the Sunday gospel reading and stressed that we behave in an unnatural way when we do not show gratitude for the bounties received because as we can observe from the two blind men…

Jul 24, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Living faith confessed by women is a source of light and joy

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, has addressed a message of blessing and gratitude to all Christian women on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women – 30 April 2017. Please find the text bellow: Christ is risen! On the third Sunday after Pascha, the Orthodox Church commemorates the myrrh-bearing women who were…

Apr 28, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Great and Holy Thursday | Patriarch Daniel: The Holy Eucharist is at the centre of Church life

Patriarch Daniel of Romania presided over the Divine Liturgy of St Basil the Great officiated on the Great and Holy Thursday at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti concelebrated with His Beatitude on 13 April 2017. After the gospel reading, His Beatitude delivered a homily focusing on the significance of…

Apr 13, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu