His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel: “The Material Things Are Consecrated In Our Relation With God-The-Creator”

Romanian Orthodox Church

On the third Sunday after the Pentecost, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, participated in the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of “Saint George the Enlightener”, in the Patriarchal Residence – informs ‘Lumina Newspaper’. To end with the service, His Beatitude delivered a sermon on the meaning of the Christian life and emphasised what man must do in order to get eternal life.

The meaning of our life on the earth is to get the eternal life or the happiness in the Kingdom of Heaven, showed His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, explaining the Gospel read at the Divine Liturgy.

Starting from the words of Jesus Christ, our Lord, the Patriarch of Romania explained why man must look for, first of all everything useful for the soul and then take care of what the body needs.

“The Lord says, that if your eye is pure, all your body will be pure. And if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. The evil eye, not the eye that is not pure, means, according to the interpretation of the Holy Fathers, especially to that of Saint John Chrysostom, the passionate mind, the mind that gets dark when attached to the material things which it turns into idols. This is why Jesus Christ continued and said: you cannot serve two masters, God and mamona”, explained the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

When the mind is darkened by selfish passions, continued His Beatitude, it does no longer thinks correctly and right. It does no longer guides the soul to salvation, to the eternal things, but it enslaves the souls into the passions of the soul and in the search of the material things.

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