The Dedication Day of Jassy: "What a wonderful hostess Saint Venerable Parascheva was!" Cover Image

Hramul Iașului: ,,Ce minunată gazdă a fost Sfânta Parascheva!" (14 octombrie 2021)
The Dedication Day of Jassy: "What a wonderful hostess Saint Venerable Parascheva was!"

Author(s): Tudorel-Constantin Rusu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Review, General Reference Works, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations, Source Material
Published by: Editura Institutului Biblic și de Misiune Ortodoxă
Keywords: Jassy; Saint Venerable Parascheva; pilgrimage; holy relics; the metropolitan Cathedral; holy service for the dedication day;

Summary/Abstract: Although the pandemic context had imposed a number of specific restrictions, Saint Venerable Parascheva was celebrated on the 14th of October 2021 with great piety and reverence in Jassy by faithful arrived from all over the country and from abroad. Near the reliquary keeping the holy relics of the Protectress of Moldova was also set, for the pilgrim's reverence, the reliquary keeping the holy relics of Saint George the Pilgrim, whose canonization was proclaimed in 2018. The Holy Liturgy devoted to the Dedication Day of the Metropolitan Cathedral in the capital of Moldova was celebrated by His Eminence Father Teofan, Archbishop of Jassy and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina, co-served by other seventeen hierarchs, assisted by a large group of priests and deacons. The faithful participated in the holy service standing in especially demarcated zones, so as not to dub together large groups of persons. At the end of the Liturgy, His Eminence Father Teofan, within the context of the year 2021 being declared by the Romanian Patriarchate as Homage year of the pastoral activity of the Romanians from outside Romania, awarded prizes to four families who had undergone the experience of living in the diaspora.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 177-188
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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