Saint Theodosius had a message about the family in the Christmas Shepherd. Archbishop Tomisa called on doctors to stop performing abortions, saying that “killing babies has become a social product, offered and consumed in full view and with the complicity of all: doctors, fathers and mothers.” He also said that young people are being separated from their families and the Church in order to “inculcate the cult of consumption of any kind and instant gratification.”

ÎPS Theodosius had a message about the family in the Christmas pastoral. Most Reverend Theodosius, Archbishop of Tomis, calls on doctors to abandon abortions, in the Christmas pastoral,

“Since the holiday of the Christmas of the Lord is rightly considered the day of the Christian family, it is appropriate to mention this deep, but impressive brightness of it. The unity of prayer and help with other brothers in faith begins in the family. When we talk about the family, we mean the root of the Christian life, not the pagan one. The family embraces the Church and the nation to the extent that it is capable of sacrifice for the birth and upbringing of a new generation enriched in God,” Archbishop Tomis said, according to News.ro.

“The stability of a nation over time is proven only when the family stands at the head of its gifts. From the theological point of view, the family is not only a simple social convention. It transcends time and has a special meaning in God’s plan for our world,” added IPS Theodosius.

He also noted that young people are separated from the Church in order to inculcate the cult of consumption of any kind and instant gratification.

“Life and its advancement through progeny is equated with a threat to so-called ‘development’ or ’emancipation.’ Young people are first separated from their relatives, then from the Church, in order to instill in the cult of consumption of any and momentary pleasures. Because of the harmful environment in which a godless society struggles, they refuse to continue the act of genesis through Marriage, as they received it from their ancestors. Infanticide has become a social product offered and consumed, in full view and with the complicity of everyone, by those who consider themselves the “guardians of life”: doctors, fathers and mothers. Families with several children are considered vulnerable, so they are denied any assistance. People with many children are often mocked, insulted, and disrespected,” ÎPS Teodosia said.

He added, noting that children from large families are deprived of the right to equal treatment with their peers.

“Honestly providing for daily life and what is necessary for the education of infants in these families is an unprecedented martyrdom that no one but Christ respects. Children from large families are often deprived of the right to equal treatment with their peers. This is where an objective observer could determine the true decline of modern society! This is where the real discrimination lies! Any compromise with the world of darkness leads here! The only hope in this painful situation can be, if we want, to return with all our strength to the sources of Romanian Christianity, that is, to the opening of the connection with Heaven, which we were taught at the dawn of ethnogenesis. , the first called to the Apostleship,” added Archbishop Tomisu.

He calls on priests to pay more attention to children, young people and Christian families who have experienced many trials.

“We strongly urge all the priests and monks of the Throne of the Holy Apostle Andrew to light the fire of prayer in churches more than ever and to open up to spiritual children, especially through the example of personal life: mercy, correct judgment and faith. (Matthew 23, 23). Priests and religious have the power to prepare new generations of Christians to resist influences alien to the spirit of the Gospel, “which threaten to destroy us as a nation with our own being.” Give, dear ministers of the church, increased attention to children, young people and Christian families who have experienced many trials. This is the right time to show the Lord and ourselves that sacrificial love and brotherhood are not “expired products” of the decline of society, but works of divine grace, which is always alive and eternally new. Direct all the sons of parishes and monasteries to the moral and material strengthening of parents with many children, thus preventing the terrible fall of despair,” Archbishop Tomis also conveyed.

He urged the faithful to tell the priests about the pain and problems they face.

“We address the Christian righteous from the apostolic land of Dobrudja with words of encouragement in the struggle they have to wage for progress in faith, hope and love. We appeal to you with a parental exhortation to stick closer to your parishes and priests in obedience and response to their appeals. Communicate to your priests the pains and difficulties of life, as well as aspirations or missionary ideas, initiating a lively and controversial communication in a good cause,” said Saint Theodosius.

He also conveyed that young Christians should respect the sanctity of their home by cultivating moral virtues and bearing children.

“Married Christians must honor the sanctity of their home, received from the Lord, cultivating moral virtues and bearing children, taking into account the words of Saint Justin the Martyr and Philosopher in Apology I, written around 150: “We do not expose, that is, we do not abandon children… so that one of them, not adopted by someone for education, dies, and thus we become murderers… In principle, we only marry to give birth to children…”. Faithful doctors and assistants must stand courageously among their colleagues for the end of the barbaric practice of shedding “thirty pieces of silver” of innocent blood. We offer advice to young people and children so that from early childhood they can learn the joy of being Christians, true sons of the Kingdom of God and understand that they are the most valuable treasure of the Church, which many are waiting to be robbed and wasted. We pray to the guardian angels and patron saints to keep them in the love of Christ and in the light of teachings that are useful for the soul,” said Archbishop Tomisky.