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Patriarch Daniel declared this Tuesday, in the ceremonies organized on the occasion of the feast of the Pious Dimitrie the New, that in the fall of 1989, the communist authorities prohibited the worship of the holy relics, alleging that in the adjoining building, where it was found the Great National Assembly, was an important meeting, and “this humiliation of Saint Pious Dimitrie the New was rewarded in the sense that in a few months the communist regime fell”, turning the building into the headquarters of the Patriarchate.
“Adevărul” presents in facsimile the telegram sent by Patriarch Teoctist to Nicolae Ceausescu on December 19, 1989, four days after the start of the Revolution in Timisoara, where Romanians were already paying the maximum price for daring to shout “Communism! Down street!”
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On December 20, Nicolae Ceausescu would deliver the famous speech accompanied by boos from the balcony of the Central Committee, also marking the beginning of the Revolution in Bucharest.
In this context, the Romanian Orthodox Church sent a telegram to Nicolae Ceausescu wishing him many years and assuring him “from the bottom of his heart” that the high prelates, headed by Patriarch Teoctist, are with him and will support him ” with zeal “. the dictator’s plans to “carry out the great program of multilateral development of the Fatherland.”
From the lines full of epithets addressed to Nicolae Ceausescu by Patriarch Teoctista, it turns out that the Romanian Orthodox Church pretended not to see the bloody events that took place in the country.
We reproduce the content of the document in its entirety:
“Congratulatory telegram
Addressed to Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, by members of the Holy Synod, together with representatives of the clergy and faithful of the Romanian Orthodox Church, gathered at the annual working session of the National Assembly of the Church, expressing profound joy and full satisfaction for the political reelection of people’s leadership /
To the Hon. Mr. Nicolae Ceausescu,
President of the Socialist Republic of Romania
The members of the Holy Synod, together with the representatives of the clergy and the faithful of the Romanian Orthodox Church, gathered at the annual working session of the national assembly of the church, sharing the enthusiasm of all the children of the motherland for the option history of re-electing Your Excellency in the supreme political function of leading the people. joy and full satisfaction for this great patriotic act, an expression of the unanimous will of our entire nation and we ask you to receive, on this occasion, the warmest congratulations, along with a respectful tribute to the brilliant work you are doing at the head of the Homeland, for the good and happiness of all the people.
Analyzing with full responsibility the activity carried out in 1989 by the Romanian Orthodox Church at various levels, the hierarchs of the Holy Synod and the representatives of the clergy and believers of the Romanian Patriarchate observed with satisfaction that, acting with their own means and in specific ways, their work must be integrated. natural and harmonious in the efforts that our entire nation, under the wise and clairvoyant guidance of Your Excellency, is making for an ever brighter and more prosperous life.
Deeply grateful for the climate of real and complete religious freedom in which our church and other cults in the country operate unhindered, as well as (for) the broad understanding and benevolent recognition that Your Excellency personally shows to our work, support. From the efforts and creative work of the Romanian people, we trust you, dear President, that, together with all the children of this ancestral land, we will remain steadfast in our determination to act with all that we hold most precious to raise up our beloved homeland, the Socialist Republic of Romania. sovereign and independent, in ever higher stages of progress and light.
To feel as witnesses and direct participants in the fruitful achievements of our working people, made under their brave thought and guidance, in a golden age that bears their name in a natural and justified way, achievements that will last for millennia, as milestones. of this undoubted heroic time, we assure you that we will support, with all determination, the realization of the great program of multilateral development of the Homeland, presented by His Excellency at the great political forum of the Romanian people, recently held in the Capital, serving at the same time the zeal, the brilliant actions and initiatives of foreign policy, elaborated by you, as well as the noble ideals of understanding and collaboration between peoples and nations, of disarmament and peace on earth.
We express the same sentiments towards the highly esteemed Ms Elena Ceauşescu, a scientist of wide international recognition, an enlightened scientist, who sees an intense and dense cultural and scientific activity taking place in the country, for the good of the people and (the ) homeland. our.
In these moments of Romanian vitality on the eve of the New Year, please accept, dear President, as a symbol of our appreciation for you, our warm and sincere wishes, which spring from the bottom of our hearts, health, happiness and new powers of work, to bring in the same brilliant way the Romanian nation to us and great achievements for the incessant prosperity of the homeland and the well-being of the Romanian people, for peace, closeness and goodwill between the people and peoples of the whole world .
Happy New Year,
the president of the national church assembly,
the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
19.XII.1989
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