PREDICĂ LA DUMINICA SFINȚILOR ROMÂNI (A-II-A DUPĂ RUSALII)
SERMON ON THE SUNDAY OF THE ROMANIAN SAINTS (THE SECOND AFTER PENTECOST)

Summary/Abstract: Our Lord and Saviour Jesus chooses His disciples and calls the four fishermen to mission: Peter and Andrew, sons of Iona, and James and John, sons of Zebedee. Secondly, we see that all those called answere His call right away, because Jesus is God the Word and Source of eternal life. Thirdly, we see that Jesus preaches the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven and also heals all the diseases and feebleness of the people. Fourthly, we understand that the fruits of preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven in the Romanian territory, starting with Saint Andrew the Apostle, the First called to mission, Protector of Romania, were shown in the multitude of Romanian Saints whom we celebrate on the second Sunday after the Pentecost. The Romanian Saints we commemorate today are those who preached the Gospel of Christ in the territory of our country, beginning with Saint Andrew the Apostle, the first called to discipleship, whom today’s Gospel text reads of. Christianity spread to the forerunners of the Romanians based on the preaching of Saint Andrew the Apostle and of his disciples in the South East of our country, today’s Dobrudgea, so that the Romanian people were formed slowly but profoundly. The Romanian people were not Christianized in a certain year, by order of the ruler prince, king or emperor, as in the case of some neighbouring peoples. Romanians’ Christianisation was done from bottom to top, beginning with the ordinary people and Christian soldiers of the Roman legions who came to Dacia, and then through the work of some Christian missionaries, especially Eastern ones who could speak Greek and Latin.

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