Feast of the Pentecost at the Romanian Patriarchate

On 3 June 2012, Sunday of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest assisted by a group of priests and deacons, in the presence of many faithful. After reading the evangelical pericope of Saint Evangelist John (John 7:37-53; 8:12), His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel delivered a sermon in which he emphasised the spiritual meaning of the evangelical pericope: “Both the Holy Gospel and the Apostle read today show us that Christ is the Light of our life and that this Light is given to us through the Descent and work of the Holy Spirit in the world. First of all, He shows us, in the Church, that the presence of Christ and of everything present in Christ as new life, both divine and human in the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, is shared to us