Patriarchate spokesman Vasile Benescu reacted on Thursday after AUR members protested outside PSD and PNL headquarters in several cities across the country, carrying candles, crosses and even coffins: “Candles, for example, are lit for the sleeping in the Lord and for the living who are in need His protection. Even for enemies. Never for public or political structures.”

A protest organized by AUR against combining local elections with European Parliament elections, in front of the PSD headquartersPhoto: AGERPRES

Vasile Benescu reacted with a message published on Facebook, in which he does not nominate AUR, but seems to be directed against the party led by George Simion, who organized rallies on Wednesday evening outside the PSD and PNL headquarters, where they came with lit candles, with crosses and even coffins.

  • “Since the immediate reality always demands our attention, including the moral one, and not only the road and the pedestrian, it is vital for us and for society to always give preference, not only the law, to common sense as an expression of the moral law and as a teacher to the bearer. Almost everyone has.
  • In terms of context, let us remember, as conscious Christians, whenever Christianity is (preliminarily) taken into the wilderness of party electoral ambitions and used as a crude tool against opponents, that there is nothing more alien to true Christianity, the most assimilated, and the Church as ” school”. ” insight, humility and moderation than their caricature through the grotesque instrumentalization of faith and its concrete symbols in the political agora.
  • Candles, for example, are lit for the dead in the Lord and for the living who need His protection. Even for enemies. Never for public or political organizations. Since in Christianity we are talking about (meta)natural persons, not legal entities. A thing that belongs to the alphabet of faith.
  • The “things of God” are, by their very nature, and therefore must remain, as Christ Himself said, completely separate from “Caesar’s.” The temptation of their union inevitably leads to the sweetening of religion and the disgrace of politics, both consequences of which are deeply harmful to the health of the social organism,” the spokesman of the Patriarchate wrote.

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