The former spokesman of the Romanian Patriarchate, Vasile Bănescu, writes, in a post on Facebook, about the canonization by the Romanian Orthodox Church of some Romanian clerics.
“Saints, canonized or not, are people. Different from each other. Holiness as a progressive state of purity of heart and mind often descended into it, knows steps, different degrees of experience, understanding and incandescence. The common denominator? Real repentance followed by love showered upon all and expressed by kindness that bestows, forgives, comforts, corrects, reconciles, saves. Including after death”, writes Vasile Bănescu, on Facebook.
Saints should not be associated only with distant times, as every era has its saints, Bănescu also says.
“The saints should not be associated only with the mists of history, with the caves of the mountains or the dunes of the desert. Those were just the saints of their time. Just as they cannot be associated exclusively with biblical models. Those were only the highest, growing in the often blinding sphere of light of the unfolding Revelation. Every age has its saints. Even ours”, says Vasile Bănescu.
Source: www.cotidianul.ro
