The Patriarch of Romania at the Romanian Academy on the National Culture Day
On 15 January 2013, a session dedicated to the National Culture Day and to the national poet Mihai Eminescu took place at the Romanian Academy. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania attended the event.
To end with the session, His Beatitude delivered a blessing speech and characterised the meeting through the saying “the soul of culture is the culture of the soul”. “We pray God to bless all those who always contribute to the promotion of the national culture, certainly in international context. Eminescu is a modern Romanian, in any circumstance, who avoids at the same time the dissolution of the Romanian into an invading internationalism and his isolation into a self sufficient provincialism. This attitude can be permanently cultivated through critic discernment in the achievement of the vital beneficial synthesis not only for an individual person“, informs Trinitas Radio.
163 years since the birth of Mihai Eminescu were celebrated here too.
“We think that he represents the people because he loved the people. Nobody can represent a people unless he loves it, so that he must internalize its values. But, having been the day of the National Culture too, we think that the basis of the Romanian culture is the cult, as it has the same root. We cultivate the relation with God, the Creator, through cult, and the relation with creation in its diversity through culture, in the presence of the Creator. This is the culture which has the scent of eternity in it. As for his relationship with the Church, he read the church books, notes of his were found, he knew our religious services and drew his inspiration from them, especially from the funeral chants. He has a significant assertion when he says that the Orthodox Church is the spiritual mother of the Romanian people who created our old literature, the Romanian language and protected it”, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said, as Trinitas TV informs us.
The event was organised by the Section of Philology and Literature, Section of Historical Sciences and Archaeology and by the National Foundation for Science and Art gathering together academicians, politicians, people of culture, as well as students of the high schools of Bucharest. The basic works were presented on the occasion published in 2012 and the Prizes of the National Foundation for Science and Art were awarded.
