December 2020 – Page 2 – St. Dumitru Romanian Orthodox Monastery

The Humility That Precedes the Knowledge of God

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:December 31, 2020
Post category:Icon from Within (Dec. '20)

Today is the Synaxis of the Mother of God. Today we honor the Mother of God, through whom we have the Savior. All the odes from today praise and hymn her. There is even a matins hymn that says...

The Lamb of Redemption

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:December 31, 2020
Post category:Icon from Within (Dec. '20)

Behold Him on the Cross now,
“The wicked” closed Him in...

Archbishop Victorin Ursache: A Saint among Us (II)

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:December 31, 2020
Post category:Icon from Within (Dec. '20)

During the Israeli-Arab War, Archimandrite Victorin remained in Old Jerusalem (Jordan), in a cell next to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The Romanian settlement in Jerusalem went to the Jewish side, so Father Victorin was unable to administer it any longer...