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Oltenia Metropolitan’s call to educators, parents, and students at the start of new school year

Metropolitan Irineu of Oltenia delivered a message at the beginning of the new school year, stating that the Church and School “unite in one heart, aiming to educate and train good Christians and future specialists by cultivating the authentic traditional values of our people.” The hierarch’s message is structured in three parts and explicitly appeals…

Sep 12, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel urges parents, professors and priests to support young people who are taking exams

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church has issued a heartfelt message encouraging teachers, parents, and priests to offer tangible support to students facing exams during this period. Emphasizing the Church’s historical commitment to education, Patriarch Daniel highlighted the importance of intellectual, spiritual, and moral development. He stressed that exams serve as significant…

Jul 2, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch of Romania urges intergenerational communion in new academic year message

In a message for the new academic year 2023-24, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has urged students to pay more attention to older generations and be inspired by their “wisdom, patience and prayerful power.” The Patriarch of Romania suggested closer cooperation between the Church and universities to help “today’s young people cultivate with trust and love…

Sep 28, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Besides intellectual instruction, young people also need prayer, Patriarch Daniel says as new academic year begins

At the beginning of the new academic year, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to all students, urging them to combine study with prayer. The patriarchal message focuses on prayer as a way to enlighten the mind, warm the heart and enhance activity. His Beatitude also recalled that time is “the most precious gift…

Sep 27, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel blesses and encourages students sitting for national exams

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has extended his blessing to all students taking national exams in Romania. “Exams are good opportunities for evaluation and intellectual maturation in a competitive society, but also necessary steps to cultivate spiritual and cultural values that increase the capacity for dialogue and communication between people,” the Patriarch of Romania encouraged students…

Jun 8, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel: Pro-life students perform soul-saving work. Christ the Child reveals mystery of humble and generous love

Christ came into the world as a Child “to reveal the great mystery of humble and generous love: a child can be ignored, as it often happens, it can be rejected, it can be killed in the womb or it can be granted all the attention, all the care and all the affection fit for…

Dec 24, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch Daniel urges parents, professors and priests to support students intensely at the end of a difficult school year

The Patriarch of Romania sent a message before the national examination and baccalaureate. Patriarch Daniel first addressed the young people to whom he stressed the importance of these exams for their development. He also urged parents, professors and priests in the parishes to support them more intensely at the end of this difficult school year.…

Jun 21, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

10 Archbishop of Suceava quotes to students: ‘Convert your inner Saul into Paul’

Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Radauti sent a message to students at the beginning of the academic year 2020/2021. The message is structured in 10 points. One of the most profound exhortations was, “Convert your inner Saul into Paul, for it is to the point of disgrace to seem righteous without being one, and preach…

Oct 5, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel’s message for academic year 2020/21: “Students need more support from Family, School and Church”

In a message for the start of the new academic year 2020/2021, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel highlighted that given the health crisis caused by the new coronavirus, “young students need more support from the Family, School and Church to form themselves intellectually and professionally, but also spiritually and culturally.” The Patriarch noted that the Holy…

Sep 25, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Ambrozie urges students to apply time discipline and avoid excessive social media use

Bishop Ambrozie of Giurgiu tells the students to be responsible with their time in a message occasioned by the beginning of the new school year 2020-2021. ‘Not only educators have responsibility but also each of you because from an early age it is good to understand that you have a role in the world and…

Sep 11, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel encourages students sitting for national exams

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message of blessing and encouragement to all students sitting for final exams these days. More than 172,000 eighth grade students in Romania started the National Evaluation on Monday, June 15, and the authorities have prepared special measures for these exams, aimed at preventing and controlling the spread of the…

Jun 23, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu