Great Canon

A tear from the bottom of the heart could blot out many of our sins: Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova

“The Great Canon is a treasure to which we must reflect for hours and days in a row,” His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova said on the first evening of Lent at the Patriarchal Cathedral. “Tears” is one of the themes of this treasure that the bishop spoke about in his sermon. The Assistant…

Mar 18, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon at patriarchal residence: Strict fast supports humble prayer

On Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel read the first portion of the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete at the Patriarchal Residence’s historic chapel. On this occasion, His Beatitude emphasized that a strict fast supports humble and fervent prayer. “This practice of fasting means an abrupt beginning of the fight against sin,” the Patriarch…

Mar 17, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

The Week in Pictures: March 2 – 8, 2020

The Orthodox World seen through the lens of photographers on March 2-8, 2020. Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews We would gladly include one of your photos depicting Orthodox life in our weekly selection. All you have to do is send the picture(s) you have taken to our email address [info @ basilica.ro] along with a…

Mar 12, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Patriarch offers reflections on Great Lent: from pagan training school to Christian repentance school

The first part of the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete was officiated in all Orthodox churches on Monday evening, March 2, 2020, marking the beginning of Great Lent. At the patriarchal cathedral in Bucharest, the Great Canon was read out by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania who spoke about repentance as the…

Mar 4, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon by St Andrew of Crete at Patriarchal Cathedral: In pictures

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Monday officiated the order of Great Compline with the Great Canon of repentance by Saint Andrew of Crete at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest.   Photography courtesy of  Basilica.ro  / Mircea Florescu

Mar 3, 2020Mircea Florescu

Patriarch Daniel: ‘Have mercy on me, o God’ is the call to the only source of eternal life – Christ

‘After every troparion of the Great Canon of Repentance of Saint Andrew of Crete we have this calling, this insistent supplication, as a breath of the Church: Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,’ Patriarch Daniel said at the end of the Great Canon officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral on Clean Monday.…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete, in first week of Lent 2018

Photography courtesy of Robert Nicolae/Basilica.ro

Mar 20, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. ‘Great Lent is a school of repentance’

Repentance was the main theme of Patriarch Daniel’s homily delivered Monday evening at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. ‘The Great Lent is a school of repentance,’ because it is ‘a mystical partaking of the Saviour’s forty-day fast,’ and a struggle against the tendencies inherited from our first parents Adam and Eve, especially ‘the tendency to…

Feb 22, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel officiates the Great Canon at the Patriarchal Cathedral

Mar 21, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

The purpose of fasting is to meet Christ, Patriarch Daniel says on Beginning of Great Lent

Many faithful prayed on Clean Monday during the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, officiated by Patriarch Daniel at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church addressed the faithful present at the Great Compline officiated Feb. 27 and spoke about the meaning and benefits of fasting. His Beatitude stressed…

Mar 1, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu