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About 10,000 people are expected at the Epiphany service, which will take place in the Port of Tomis, where the traditional crosses will be thrown into the sea, His Eminence Teodosio, Archbishop of Tomis, said on Monday.
He says that “if we hide from the holidays it means that we want to be overcome by the disease.”
“If we hide from the holidays, it means that we want to be defeated by the disease. Because we want to overcome illness with the help of God, because it is the feast of gifts, the feast of holiness, many rays of holiness will be tomorrow and the day after tomorrow on the water that is sanctified and on the people who come to this sanctification ” said Teodosie, on Antena 3.
His Eminence Theodosius announced that on the eve of the Epiphany the service of the Holy Mass will begin at 5.15, at 7.15 the priests will go out to sanctify the water, so that before 8.00 they can begin to bottle the bottles with aghiasma, which will be delivered to the faithful. on January 6, the Epiphany. The archdiocese has prepared nearly 120,000 bottles of holy water.
“We will make a procession in the Port of Tomis, where it is very wide, so that people do not get overcrowded. We also give them all the instructions, I invite the Gendarmerie and the Police to be among the people to keep all the rules, and we do our job like every year because jobs do not change in pandemics, but they remain the same. (…) This holy water will also fight diseases and microbes, it will make us more brothers, because grace is what renews us and we must fellowship more, to overcome any fear, because fear brings disease, we are not yet controlled by fear , but controlled by enthusiasm, “said Teodosie.
Nor will the tradition of throwing crosses into the sea be overlooked, although it is a pandemic. However, the three crosses will be launched in the port of Tomis and not on the promenade of the Casino.
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