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The water for the Epiphany will be consecrated on Tuesday, at noon, in the Patriarchal Cathedral to be bottled until night in one-liter bottles that will be distributed to the faithful on Wednesday from 7:00 am. They will advance through a well-marked corridor, maintaining a distance of 1.5 m and wearing a protective mask, announces the Patriarchate.
“To avoid the agglomeration of the faithful in the distribution of the Great Aghiasma, there will no longer be large vessels with water as in previous years, but the faithful will receive the Great Aghiasma already bottled,” says the cited source.
The acts in the Patriarchal Cathedral, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord this year, will be carried out in the context of the precautions imposed by the observance of sanitary regulations as follows:
Wednesday January 6, 2021, Epiphany
- Between 07:00 and 14:00 the access of the faithful to the Patriarchal Cathedral will be made only from the Plaza Unirii, access being restricted from Calle 11 de Junio (on this route only the descent from Cathedral);
- Between 09:30 and 12:00 the Holy Mass will be celebrated inside the Patriarchal Cathedral, respecting all current sanitary regulations;
- Between 12:00 and 13:00, the Service of the Great Sanctification of Water (Aghiasma Mare) will be performed again by His Beatitude Father Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, in a single silver vessel, in the Portico of the Patriarchal Residence, after which the faithful present at the service will be blessed by sprinkling with this Great Aghiasma from January 6;
- To avoid the agglomeration of the faithful in the distribution of the Great Aghiasma, there will no longer be large vessels with water as in previous years, but the faithful will receive the Aghiasma Mare already bottled.
