2020-04-19T00:45:25+03:00

LIVE Easter Resurrection Service of the Romanian Patriarchate

04/19/2020 Romania

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from
Petre Dobrescu,

Sunday, April 19, 2020, 12:45 p.m.

Libertatea transmitted the Patriarchate Resurrection service, taken from the Trinitas TV, the official television of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Resurrection services were held throughout the country only by priests, without the presence of believers in the churches.

The Holy Light arrived in Romania on Saturday, brought from Jerusalem by a delegation of priests led by Vicar Bishop Timotei Prahoveanul. The Holy Light reached the people with the help of priests and volunteers, who distributed it to the faithful at the door.

“The fact that the Holy Light came again this year to Jerusalem and to all the Orthodox countries that sent delegates to receive it as a gift from Christ brings joy. And in addition to the blessing, it also brings us great comfort, a consolation,” Patriarch Daniel said Saturday night in the message addressed to Romanian believers.

Volunteers share the Holy Light on the streets of Bucharest PHOTO: Raed Krishan

“Beyond all the obstacles that exist due to the pandemic, through this Holy Light we have maintained communion with Christ and with all the Orthodox Churches and all our believers, who, although they cannot physically participate in the night of the Resurrection to service, by receiving this Holy Light in their homes, lights up with celebration, as the Easter hymns urge us, and We hug›Spiritually, spiritually, from a distance through the same faith that we confess and the same love that we show Christ and his Church,” said Patriarch Daniel.

The patriarch prayed to the Savior Jesus Christ “for all those who are in hospitals or in their homes, suffering, alone or sad, in quarantine or in isolation, to bring the light of their love to their souls.”