Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is
Christianity’s most important holiday. It has been called a moveable
feast because it doesn’t fall on a set date every year, as most holidays
do. Instead, Christian churches in the West celebrate Easter on the
first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox on March
21. Therefore, Easter is observed anywhere between March 22 and April 25
every year. Orthodox Christians use the Julian calendar to calculate
when Easter will occur and typically celebrate the holiday a week or two
after the Western churches, which follow the Gregorian calendar.
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Floriile - Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest
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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Friday, March 20, 2015
2011 SOLAR ECLIPSE
The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
20 March 2015 — Total Solar Eclipse
It's a Total Solar Eclipse in the Faroe Islands and Svalbard (Norway), and a Partial Solar Eclipse in Europe, northern and eastern Asia and northern and western Africa. The eclipse starts at 07:41 UTC and ends at 11:50 UTC.
The total phase of this solar eclipse is not visible in Bucharest, but it can be observed there as a partial solar eclipse.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Eusebiu Ştefănescu - Arhivarul clipei
Actor Eusebiu Stefanescu, a natural elegance, passed away
Actor Eusebiu Stefanescu was a "presence of a natural elegance", an actor who lived intensely through theatre and poetry, a press release by the Theatre Union of Romania (UNITER), sent AGERPRES on Sunday, reads.
"He had a still, sincere gaze which left you off-guard, made you be afraid of your gloomy thoughts, a gaze that chased perfidy away. He was a presence of a natural elegance, with a discreet smile, but which was hiding a very joyful mystery. The mystery of an extreme life experience through theatre and poetry. As a teacher, he managed to pass on, to guide several generations of future actors to the perfection, to the controlled severeness of the force of the word well spoken in the spotlights," the release says.
"As a member of the UNITER Senate, Eusebiu Stefanescu received in
2014, at the UNITER Awards Gala, the Prize of the UNITER chairman for
'his contribution to the beautiful utterance of poetry'. Almost one year
after being granted this award, Eusebiu Stefanescu is passing away,
leaving a huge void," the UNITER release reads.
Eusebiu Stefanescu has died on the night of Saturday to Sunday, at the Bucharest Military Hospital, at 70 years of age.AGERPRES
http://www.agerpres.ro/english/2015/03/15/actor-eusebiu-stefanescu-a-natural-elegance-passed-away-15-57-53
Moartea actorului Eusebiu Ştefănescu l-a dărâmat pr Florin Piersic. „Îi
consolez familia şi sunt rănit şi vreau să spun ceva...trebuie să spun
un lucru foarte grav. Abia am curaj să apăs pe butonul de la telefon
pentru că imi este frică să primesc tot timpul o noua veste tristă”, a
declarat marele actor. .
Actorul Eusebiu Ştefănescu a murit, duminică, la vârsta de 70 de ani.
Potrivit primelor informaţii, decesul actorului a fost cauzat de o
tumoare cerebrală."Acum două săptămâni, fiind la Ploieşti, am aflat de suferinţa acestui minunat coleg care mi-a fost foarte apropiat partener în filmele făcute. El era un coleg excepţional şi dacă vreţi vă spun o întamplare care să mângâie sufletele familiei lui este faptul ca eu am fost şi sunt in continuare bun prieten cu baiatul lui, cu Ionut Stefănescu. Nu ştiu cum să vă spun că de multe ori împreuna cu Ionuţ, într-o zi m-am întâlnit în fata ministerului Educaţiei şi am povestit foarte multe despre viaţa noastră şi a lui Eusebiu. Între toti cei pe care îi cunosc de vârsta mea şi pe cei mai tineri cu câtiva ani, atât vreau să vă spun că era un recitator excepţional. Acum o lună de zile vorbeam cu Patriarhul Daniel spunea ca trebuie să îl pomenesc pe Eusebiu Stefanescu care a venit o dată şi a recitat foarte furmos. Ii consolez familia şi sunt rănit şi vreau să spun ceva...trebuie să spun un lucru foarte grav. Abia am curaj să apăs pe butonul de la telefon pentru ca îmi este frică să primesc tot timpul o noua veste tristă", a declarat actorul Florin Piersic la România TV.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
ROGER WATERS - Perfect Sense
Hey...girl
Take out the dagger
And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution
Hey girl
Let freedom for all be our rallying call
Tomorrow lets make...our new resolution
Yeah, but tonight lie still
While I plunder your sweet grave
And remember
Only the poor can be saved
Hey girl
As I've always said I prefer your lips red
Not what the good Lord made
But what he intended
Hey girl
Don't point the finger at me
I am only a rat in a maze like you
And only the dead go free
So...please hold my hand
As we blunder through the maze
And remember
Nothing can grow without rain
Don't point
Don't point your finger at me
I awoke in a fever
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat
She said "You've been having a nightmare
And it's not over yet"
Then she picked up the doggy in the window
(The one with the waggly tail)
And she put him to bed between two bits of bread
4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution) Lyrics
Artist: Roger Waters (Buy Roger Waters CDs)Album: The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
Video for "4:41AM (Sexual Revolution)" from Roger Waters' 1984 debut
"The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking", Eric Clapton is featured on the
album on lead guitar.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Dragobete
'Dragobete, the traditional lovers’ day in Romania, is celebrated on
February 24, ten days after the Western European and American
counterpart Valentine’s Day. The Dragobete traditional story goes that,
clothed with holiday suits, young men and women meet in front of the
church and go searching the woods and meadows for spring flowers. They
sit around fire on the hills of the village and talk. At noon, the girls
run to the village, each followed by one boy who had fallen for them.
If the boy is fast and reaches the girl of his choice and if she likes
him, she kisses him in front of everyone. This tradition triggered the
expression “Dragobete kisses the girls!” (Dragobetele saruta fetele).
The kiss show the two lovers’ engagement, Dragobete being an
opportunity to show the love in front of the community.
There are a number of Dragobete customs in rural areas, many of which
are not kept by modern Romanians anymore. On this day, no animals are
sacrificed because it would ruin the point of mating. In the old days,
single women used to gather the last remnants of snow, called “the
fairies’ snow”, and the water resulted from the melted snow was used
throughout the year for various beauty treatments and love spells.
The tradition goes that men should not hurt women, nor argue with
them, otherwise they will not do well the whole year. Youngsters believe
that on this day they should be joyous and respect the holiday, so that
they can be in love the whole year.'
sursa : romania-insider.com
Vlad Condurache, vlad@romania-insider.com
Corina Saceanu, corina@romania-insider.com
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