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By organizing the service after 23:00, he violated the restrictions imposed by the quarantine established in Constanza, the fact that after 23:00 there is also a traffic ban, as well as the recommendations of the Patriarchate, the cited source notes.
He also said that churches should not be closed for any illness that comes and that you must first get sick given the number of people in the church. Dozens of believers were present at the Te Deum in the Cathedral, most of them wearing protective masks, but without respecting social distance.
At one point, several believers approached the Archbishop of Thomis, who blessed them.
At the end of the religious ceremony, His Eminence Theodosius thanked the authorities for allowing this midnight prayer.
“We thank God for this night of light of which many had no hope, some did not come fearing that someone would stop them. Of course, whoever stops us, we all have the right to pray when it is time to pray. And here I want to thank the authorities here with whom I consulted and agreed, not expressly, but they made me intuit that we can pray at midnight and I thank them because human orders cannot. to nullify the divine commandments, ”said the Archbishop of Tomis.
He also said that churches should not close any disease that comes and that the people of the church should be sick first.
“I told you a long time ago that the churches will not close and I repeat, the churches should not close any disease that comes. Churches are cures for diseases. There were many of us here in the church, we did not get sick. I was supposed to get sick first, but no, I didn’t get sick. Therefore, because if we have God who is the doctor of our souls and bodies, we will remain healthy not only in the body, but also in our mind and in our conscience, which will remain awake, ”the Archbishop of Tomis also transmitted.
