Antena 3 gave him a tribune Theodosiaon Good Friday, for a sermon on peace and sacrifice, after two days ago he reconfirmed his admiration for “founder Putin”, being harshly criticized by BOR for his statements.
Adrian Ursu He did not ask Theodosius any questions during his broadcast during his show about his pro-Putin position, nor did he talk about the horrors in Ukraine and the fact that Ukrainians cannot celebrate Easter in the church, as many places of worship are bombed by Russians. But Theodosius spoke at length about “love,” “sacrifice,” and “peace.”
Immediately after the dialogue with Theodosius, Ursu began to talk about the massacres in Bucea and the war. During Teodosie’s speech, neither Ursu, Oana Stănciulescu nor any of the four guests (including Bogdan Teodorescucommunication expert, or Victor Alistarthe representative of civil society in the SCM), did not ask Theodosius any questions about his pro-Putin position.
- “With earnest prayers to God for all good. We are preparing to enter the Holy Church. It is a day of sacrifice, it is the day of the Lord’s Supper, that is why we have this icon worn in procession with the burial of the Lord. We will enter the church and all Christians will pass under this icon with the burial of the Lord “, Theodosius began his speech.
Adrian Ursu asked Theodosius if the prayers “bring peace” and if “they can bring relief on such days when you no longer know what is good, right, clean” without mentioning a word about the war in Ukraine, the massacres committed of Russians, rape or torture.
Theodosius gave a lecture on “peace,” “victory,” “love,” saying that “to reach God it took death.”
- “Three words are useful. Behold, I have spoken peace, with this greeting the Savior greeted them: Peace be with you, bold, I have overcome Hell, and fear not. When we are with God we are safe, nothing can overcome us, because God is not overcome by anyone and nothing. God is the one who fulfills our life. Without God we are orphans, without the Resurrection we have no Light. But to reach God it took Crucifixion, death. But all these were the ones that foreshadowed the victory. Christ endured these things out of love for us in order to redeem us from the bondage of sin and death, and for all generations he has endured from the ancestors to the end of the ages. Behold, we are the beneficiaries now of Christ embracing us with his power on the cross and of forgiveness from the grave ”.
Adrian Ursu concluded the dialogue with Theodosius by saying that “we will think of the words spoken” by Theodosius to whom he wished “power in service” twice, concluding with words about the suffering of Good Friday and the hope of Sunday, when the Resurrection is celebrated.
- “We will think of these words that you have spoken tonight, with God we are safe (…) God give you strength in the service that you do. Holy Easter to find us all in peace, reconciliation and hope. May you have strength and peaceful holidays and may we carry the suffering of such a day and the hope of Sunday “, were Ursu’s farewell words for Theodosius.
Context
Theodosius was asked two days ago about his views on Vladimir Putin and whether he maintains his claim that “he is not as black as the world is.” Theodosius replied that “there is no judge, only God is a judge” and added that all the foundations made by Putin remained, “he did not machine-gun them”, “he did nothing with them”.
- “It simply came to our notice then. Did he take the foundations, did he machine-gun them? He did nothing to them. I’m the same. I don’t have to have an opinion, “said His Eminence Theodosius.
- “It simply came to our notice then. I said it and I say it, without fear and without any hesitation: he is the greatest founder in the Holy Mountain and in Jerusalem “, was the first statement of Theodosius, made on a radio show of the Archdiocese he leads. His Eminence Theodosius added, “Putin and Medvedev are also founders in his own country, and we followed in their footsteps, and I marveled at how many sacrifices they made, and we judge them as criminals.”
Vasile Bănescu, the spokesman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, replied to Teodosie, reminding him that “each of us honors or compromises himself morally in the most relevant way possible of the injustice that cries out to heaven and especially to the Truth ”.
- Tomitan’s perseverance in the morally blind option, in favor of barbarism disguised as a Christian founder, but also the shockingly cynical question, “What, he machine-gunned the foundations?”, Are almost silent. As if the walls of some buildings, be they churches, not the lives of innocent people really matter! (…) Recurring, some compromise spectacularly and irreversibly. Moral reversal is unbearable in the Christian register and strongly denounced in the Gospels. “Happy are the peacemakers”, not the promoters of the “war between us”, Bănescu wrote.
In recent years, Theodosius has been harshly criticized by the Romanian Orthodox Church, the most recent episodes being during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Theodosius shared the population with the same teaspoon, defied wearing a mask or when he repeated the Resurrection service, after lifting restrictions in the presence of a larger audience and television.
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