100 years after the Great Union of all Romanians within the borders of one single State, and only one month before the country will take over the rotation presidency of the EU, Bucharest will see its National Cathedral consecrated, on Sunday, 25 November 2018. Strange as it may seem for a European nation, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the majority church of Romanians, did not, until now, dispose of a cathedral in Bucharest. The building currently playing the role of Patriarchal Cathedral is actually a small monastic church dating from the mid-17th century. The National Cathedral that will be consecrated on Sunday represents the embodiment of a more-than-a-century-old dream of the Kings and P
The Romanian centenary was celebrated, on Thursday, 8 November 2018, in the Dominican Abbey in Brussels, through a magnificent concert of classical music performed by the Transylvanian Quartet, from Cluj-Napoca. The event was attended by EU officials, diplomats, religious representatives to the EU, as well as members and friends of the Romanian community in Belgium. In the opening of the concert, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, the Vice-President of the Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institution talked about the wider context in which the reunification of all the provinces traditionally inhabited by Romanians was possible, back in 1918. He pointed that this
The feast of Saints Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael was celebrated this Thursday, November 8th 2019, at the Saint Nicholas Romanian Orthodox Church, in Brussels. The parish community enjoyed the presence of His Eminence Jospeh, the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe, who celebrated the Divine Liturgy together with the priests and deacons of the parish. In the homily, His Eminence mentioned the close link between the archangels and our salvation, thus emphasising the importance of this feast: “The feast of the Holy Archangels is one of the greatest feasts in the Orthodox tradition because the Archangels are closely linked to our salvation: Saint Michael the
