Providence Policlinic Consecrated and Inaugurated
The Patriarch of Romania and the Primate Metropolitan of Slovakia and His Eminence Teofan consecrated the new seat of the “Providence” Policlinic Medical Centre of the Metropolitanate of Moldova and Bucovina.
In the speech delivered His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel expressed the joy of the co-operation between the clergy and the people engaged in the medical life. His Beatitude showed the fact that we badly need to unite the medical science with the Orthodox spirituality, namely with prayer, because the physician treats but God heals: “We congratulate you for this work. We congratulate His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan first of all and all the collaborators of the Eparchial Centre who decided to purchase this space, organise and equip it, and so we congratulate all those who work here. I said work, not that you are employed here, because work is rewarded in heaven, according to the ninth Beatitude which says that your reward is great in heaven. We pray God to bless you and reward your work with joy and blessings for your families and divine activity. This cooperation is a confirmation of our faith and vocation.
Then, His Beatitude Daniel awarded a series of distinctions to the persons closely engaged in the good development of this project. Some of those nominalised by His Beatitude are the director of “Providence” Policlinic, Mrs economist Daniela Naclad, Mr Mircea Precupan, eparchial counsellor within the Patrimony Department and church constructions, and Mrs Elena Duca, chief of the Epidemiology Section within the Public Health Department of Iasi, as the doxologia.ro web site informs us.
Visits to Diaconia House and to St. Sava Church
Today too, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel visited “Diaconia” House and congratulated the employees of this centre on the occasion of the anniversary of ten years since the setting up of “Solidarity and Hope” Foundation. “Diaconia” House was renovated from 2003 – 2006 with the support of the Eparchial Centre of Iasi, of the Ministry for Labour, of the State Secretariat for Religious Affairs, and of the funding partners from Germany and Switzerland.
The Foundation is a NGO of the Metropolitanate implementing social, philanthropic, cultural, educational and civic programmes.
Then, the two Primates visited the church of St Sava, the chapel of “Diaconia” Social Charitable Institute.
The church is a historical monument dating as far back as the 15th century, from 2005 having been in a large process of consolidation, restoration and renovation. The Patriarch of Romania offered parish priest Narcis Axinte, executive director of “Solidarity and Hope” Foundation, a blessing cross and several books of religious service.
