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The patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, announced on Sunday the launch of the website Pictamcatedrala.ro, a support platform for painting the National Cathedral, reports Agerpres.
“We are contemporaries of a great work and our gift is a gift for eternity. It is a great joy and a great opportunity to be a contemporary of this holy work, which will last for centuries as praise to God and as protection of the Romanian people. For a long time time, those who help to build and paint the cathedral are mentioned here, in the Patriarchal Historic Cathedral, but also in the New Cathedral, in the National Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Salvation of the Nation. May the good Lord help us, looking the beautiful Orthodox icons of this church, to raise our minds to the imperishable and heavenly beauty of the Kingdom of God, to rejoice with the angels and the saints, ”said the patriarch at the end of the sermon on Orthodox Sunday, according to the Basilica Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate.
The new Pictamcatedrala.ro site, which aims to be “a tool to visualize painting as a whole”, describes the work already carried out and the ways to support the continuation of the painting project of the building. The site contains news about the status of the works, photos and videos of the workshop activity in which the mosaic icons are prepared before installation, as well as the possibility of donating online.
The coordinator of the paintings, Daniel Codrescu, told Trinitas TV that the site was designed both to help people who want to participate effectively through donations, and “for the moral support of the project, building a community around it. Cathedral”.
“In the future, we will have a general project, in which people can access, for example, a saint for whom they want to donate or a part of the set that was available for donation,” added Daniel Codrescu, according to the Basilica. Agency.
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