Patriarch Daniel: Should we never thank God, peoples for past gifts, our dignity goes feeble

Should we never thank God and the people for the gifts received in the past, interrupt communication in the present and our communion with God and our worthy predecessors, we get spiritually poorer and our dignity goes feeble, precisely because we do not cultivate our gratitude, on Monday said Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) when delivering the Acatist of our Lord Jesus Christ, at the service of the passage of years from the Patriarchal Cathedral. 

Daniel reminded that 2018 was being declared by the Holy Synod of the BOR as the Tribute Year of the Unity of Belief and Nation and Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union's Founders. 

"Will be thus emphasised on the one hand the importance of the national union of the Romanians and from the church's viewpoint, and on the other hand will be put in light the contribution of our church to the achievement of the unity of belief and people. Likewise, we shall also commemorate with gratitude the makers of the Great Union. Why so, because if we do not thank God and the peoples for the gifts we have received in the past, we interrupt in the present the communication and our communion with God and the worthy predecessors, we get poorer spiritually and feeble in our dignity, precisely because we do not cultivate gratitude. That is why, each and every one and we, all together are called to live the 2018 firstly as a year of our gratitude brought to God for the gift of life, for personal health, and also for the gift of the national unity," the Patriarch said. 

The BOR's Patriarch expressed hope that on 30 November the Cathedral of the Nation's Salvation will be sanctified. 

"With God help, on 30 November 2018, when we celebrate the Holy Apostle Andrew Romania's Protector the Cathedral of the Nation's Salvation or the National Cathedral, this new edifice being a practical liturgical necessity and a symbol of the Romanian spirituality and communion, will be sanctified. The Cathedral will dedicated to the Lord's Ascension and Heroes Day," the Patriarch said. 

On Monday, 1 January is celebrated the Circumcision of the body of the Lord and St. Basil the Great. The liturgy of St. Basil the Great is celebrated 10 times in a year: 1 and 5 January, 20 and 27 March, 3, 10, 17, 28 and 30 April, 25 December.

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