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Furthermore, the few deviations from the line, such as those of His Eminence Theodosius, Archbishop of Thomis, were sanctioned by the Patriarchate with little diplomacy and sparing.
However, it seems that Blessed Daniel has also reached the end of his patience.
After the closure of churches and cemeteries, while shopping centers and supermarkets remained open, the aberrant obstacles imposed on the two great pilgrimages, by San Piadoso Paracheva and San Demetrio el Nuevo, seem to have represented the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The patriarch, who served Holy Mass on Tuesday, October 27, at the patron saint of Saint Demetrius the New, was of unprecedented harshness with political power in his sermon on this occasion. He warned her, neither more nor less, that she could meet the fate of the communist regime.
“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 ” PF Daniel recalled.
“This humiliation of the pious Saint Demetrius 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, just on the feast of Saint Pious Dimitrie the New, the Basilica of the Romanian Patriarchate Press Center was installed, broadcasting from the Patriarchal Cathedral for radio and television. every day the service of the Holy Liturgy and the service of Vespers to the joy of the Romanian Orthodox believers in the country and in the diaspora ”.
And, in a gentle tone, the Patriarch ended his warning with words that should cause shivers in the Cotroceni and Victoria Palaces:
“Brothers, don’t make fun of God.”
Coincidentally or not, Marcel Ciolacu, leader of the Opposition, was the Patriarch’s personal guest at Tuesday’s service.
And, as in Sfânta Parascheva, in Iași, on the day of the feast, and on Tuesday in Bucharest, pilgrims from all over the country were able to worship the relics, without being asked for the bulletin.
