Passion Week begins. Services held at the Patriarchal Cathedral. BOR has announced when the Holy Light will be brought

The Week of the Holy Passions begins on Monday, and the Denii services are scheduled daily, at 5:00 p.m., at the Patriarchal Cathedral, BOR announces, quoted by Agerpres.

According to the Basilica Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate, the other services will take place as follows:

• Holy and Great Thursday: -9.30 – Holy Liturgy
• Holy and Great Friday: -8.00 – 11.30 – Vespers with the removal of the Holy Epitaph (between 11.30 and 16.50 the faithful will be able to pass under the Holy Epitaph)
• Holy and Great Saturday: – 8.00 – 12.30 – Service of the Hours, Obedience and Vespers combined with the Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great
• Resurrection of the Lord – Holy Easter: – 00.00 – Father Patriarch Daniel will offer the Holy Light to the hierarchs, priests and deacons in the porch in front of the Patriarchal Residence, and they will distribute it to the faithful in the specially arranged aisles; the Resurrection service will be celebrated outside the Patriarchal Cathedral, and the Holy Liturgy will be inside. – 12.00 – Service of the Vespers of the Resurrection of the Lord (Second Resurrection) inside the Patriarchal Cathedral
• On Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week (May 6 – 7), from 9:30 a.m., the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy is scheduled
• The Healing Spring – May 10: – 9.30 – 12.30 – Holy Liturgy; – 12.30 – 13.30 – Small consecration of the water in front of the Baldachin of the Saints; – after 1:30 p.m. – the distribution of the small Agheasma to the faithful.

When the Holy Light will be brought from Jerusalem

The Holy Light will be brought from Jerusalem, on the evening of Saturday, May 4, by Father Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, the Superior of the Settlements of the Romanian Patriarchate at the Holy Places, and will be offered to the delegates of the Dioceses of the Romanian Patriarchate present at the “Otopeni” International Airport, the Office announces of the Romanian Patriarchate, quoted by News.ro.

Later, the diocesan centers, through the deacons, will distribute the Holy Light to each parish within them.

The Holy Light will be taken, by means of a delegate of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bucovina, from Bucharest to Chisinau, where it will be offered to the parishes of the Metropolis of Bessarabia.

The same evening, at around 19.00, the Holy Light will be received at the Patriarchal Cathedral by His Beatitude Father Patriarch Daniel.

Publisher: MB