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Patriarch Daniel made a comment in October about the fall of the communist regime in December 1989, on the feast of Saint Demetrius the New. “God does not allow them to mock himself,” Daniel said, referring to the fall of communism as a reward for the 1989 humiliation of Saint Demetrius by communist authorities. The statements of Patriarch Daniel were made in the context of former Prime Minister Ludovic Orban announcing that the pilgrimage could not take place. The BOR spokesman said at the time that the decision was “offensive.”
“In the fall of 1989, on the occasion of the patron saint of Saint Demetrius the New, on October 27, the communist authorities banned the worship of the holy relics of Saint Pious Dimitrie that same day, in the building next door, where the was the Great National Assembly. An important meeting took place. Thus, Patriarch Teoctist was forced to move the coffin from Cerro Metropolitano, from the Cathedral, but he did not take it too far, but to the nearby Church of San Nicolás-Vladica ” said Patriarch Daniel, according to the Basilica.
He blamed the fall of communism, after the revolution of December 1989, on this “humiliation” of Saint Demetrius the New.
“This humiliation of Saint Pious Dimitrie the New was rewarded in the sense that in a few months the communist regime fell, and in the adjoining building, which became the Palace of the Patriarchate, on October 27, 2007, on the feast of Saint Pious Dimitrie the New, the Romanian Patriarchate Basilica Press Center was established, which broadcasts from the Patriarchal Cathedral every day from the Patriarchal Cathedral the service of Holy Mass and the service of Vespers to the joy of Orthodox believers Romanians in the country and in the diaspora. Brothers, God does not allow himself to be ridiculed “, added the Patriarch.
He concluded that “from this we see that ‘God cannot be mocked’, as the Holy Apostle Paul says (Galatians 6: 7). Brothers, no one mocks God. He is long-suffering, but he is also just. First, his merciful love It overwhelms their justice His justice is shown when he wants to correct people, sometimes using bitter drugs, not just sweets to correct people, and thus allows them to face various trials.
The liturgy was the central point of the pilgrimage of Saint Demetrius carried out this year in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic with sanitary and distancing restrictions.
In the context of the coronavirus epidemic and the increasing number of cases in Bucharest, with the entry of the Capital into the red stage and related restrictions, only the people of Bucharest were allowed access to the Saint Dumitru pilgrimage in the capital.
Given the similar restriction to the pilgrimage of the Pía Parascheva, motivated by the same pandemic conditions and increasing the number of cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2, Patriarch Daniel issued a statement accusing the authorities of the measure as “disproportionate , discriminatory and taken without prior consultation with the Romanian Orthodox Church. “
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