PF Daniel. Flower pilgrimage, a confession of faith in Christ the crucified and resurrected

The pilgrimage of Flowers is a confession of faith in Christ the crucified and resurrected, a blessing for the city and a joy for pilgrims, the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, said to the thousands of believers present on Metropolitan Hill on Saturday.

‘The pilgrimage of the flowers is a prayer in procession and gathering in the parishes and monasteries, of the clergy and the believers. He is a confession of faith in Christ the crucified and resurrected, but also a friendship with Him, the victor of death. Pilgrimage is a blessing for the city and a joy for pilgrims. We thank all the clergy and believers participating in the pilgrimage and we ask the Savior Jesus Christ to give peace and joy, health and salvation and holidays to the glory of God and our salvation, « said Patriarch Daniel, in the teaching word addressed to the participants.

‘The 40 -day post from the triod’s period ended with Friday’s Vecernia of the sixth week, ie yesterday. Thus, it was passed to the Saturday of Lazăr and the Sunday of Flowers or the Lord’s entry into Jerusalem. These two days are a bridge between the ascetic post of 40 days and the week of the holy sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, which has a mytagogical content, of secret or mystical participation in the sufferings of Christ, at the Passover of the Cross, as a preparation to receive the joy of the Resurrection of the Lord ‘, said Patriarch.

The Most Blessed Father said that Lazarus’s resurrection hastened the death of Jesus by crucifixion before the Jewish Easter.

‘Since childhood, the Lord Jesus went every year in pilgrimage to Jerusalem on the occasion of the Jewish Easter feast. The last time, however, he went to Jerusalem after he resurrected his friend Lazăr in Betania, who had died four days before. The miracle of the resurrection of Lazăr the fourth day produced great admiration and joy in the simple people and among the children and young people, who welcomed Jesus with branches of finic and olive, singing ‘Osana, blessed is the one who comes in the Lord’. Then many Jews believed in Jesus. For this reason, scholars and Pharisees, full of envy and hatred against Jesus, decided to kill him. Thus, the resurrection of Lazăr hastened the death of Jesus by crucifixion before the Jewish Easter. But Jesus overcame his own death through the resurrection and became the foundation of the resurrection of all people at the end of the ages, « explained the hierarch.

He recalled that the interpretation that Lazăr’s resurrection is a icon or pre -image of the resurrection of public or universal is explained by two parents, one from the east and the other in the West.

‘It is first explained in the writing of Saint Cyril Alexandria, who passed to the Lord in 444, a writing called’ comments to the Gospel of John ‘, but also in a sermon of the West theologian Petru Hrisologul, passed to the Lord in 450. So, these two parents, one of the east, in the same time A foreshadowing of the resurrection of public, « said Patriarch Daniel.

The Archdiocese of Bucharest organized, on Saturday, the pilgrimage of the flowers, attended by thousands of pilgrims -hierarchs, priests, monks, monks and believers from the Capital and from Ilfov county -, in front of which the bishop of the Archbishop of Bucharest was.

With the Flower Day, the last week of the Passover Passover begins, called the Passover Week, in which the Christians are preparing to meet the great feast of the Resurrection of the Savior Jesus Christ, who is celebrated together by the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic believers on April 20.