Procesiune impresionantă pe străzile Capitalei, cu ocazia
sărbătorii Floriilor. Mii de credincioşi, alături de un sobor de preoţi
au participat la evenimentul religios ce marchează Intrarea Domnului în
Ierusalim. Procesiunea de Florii a avut ca punct de pornire Mănăstirea
Radu Vodă şi s-a încheiat la Catedrala Patriarhală. Tot astăzi,
credincioşii catolici se pregătesc pentru Noaptea de Înviere. La
Catedrala Sf.Iosif din Bucureşti, liturghia va începe la ora 23.00, în
prezenţa Arhiepiscopului Mitropolit, Ioan Robu.
Over 4,000 people participated on Saturday in the Capital at the Palm
Sunday pilgrimage, during which His Beatitude Daniel has transmitted
them that after the celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, there is
another kind of fasting, of the memory of His Passions and of preparing
for the Resurrection.
The procession took place, as every year, from the Radu Voda
Monastery to the Palace of the Patriarchate, with the participation of
800 priests in Bucharest and Ilfov County, who led the convoy of
thousands of pilgrims.
The large icon of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, carried in the
procession and made each year by a different church, was made this year
by the places of worship in the 6th district, being edged with white freesias.
At the Palace of the Patriarchate, the thousands of participants in
the procession have been greeted by Patriarch Daniel, who, after the
speeches of other senior clerics, addressed the crowd referring to the
importance of the Palm Sunday, the celebration of Jesus’ entry into
Jerusalem.
Same as in Bucharest, the Palm Sunday pilgrimages were organized in
the Romanian Orthodox Church dioceses and Metropolitan churches across
the country and abroad.
In Bucharest, the Palm Sunday pilgrimage was banned by the communist
regime in 1948 and resumed in 2008 at the initiative and with the
blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.
Also on Sunday, about one million Catholics in Romania celebrate
Easter, the largest communities being in Transylvania. In Bucovina there
is also an important community of Polish and German Catholics.
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