On the day of the celebration of the Holy Great Martyr George, the bearer of victory, His Holiness Father Irineu, Metropolitan of Oltenia, performed the Holy Liturgy at the Prisaca Monastery, in Dolj county, surrounded by an elected council of priests and deacons.
The proto-father was also part of the council that prayed together with the hierarch. Gregory Sandu. During the holy service, the theologian Mihnea Ilie Trică was ordained a deacon on behalf of the Parish “Adormirea Maicii Domnului”-Ișalnița, from Protoieria Craiova Nord.
In the teaching speech, His Eminence spoke about the chosen life of Saint George and his confession before the persecuting emperors: “It is a moment of prayer, of spiritual elevation, of glorifying God, having Saint George as our helper and protector. The martyr of the Savior Jesus Christ, Saint George, the confessor and bearer of victory, toiled and toiled in the time of the persecuting emperors. He faced them with hope and with the help of the Holy Spirit, the One who spoke through Saint George and showed him victorious over all the circumstances of life. Saint George, being in front of his persecutors, who sought by all means to divert him from the right path and from the path to the Kingdom of Heaven, considered all these human enticements and promises as passing things. With his eyes fixed on the Cross of our Savior Jesus Christ, in this war he showed himself fearless and bearer of victory”.
