Archbishop Victorin Ursache mentioned in Putna: He kept all his life what he learned in the family and at the monastery of Metaniatranslated

Archbishop Victorin Ursache, who led the Romanian Orthodox Missionary Archdiocese of America and Canada from 1966 to 2001, was commemorated at the Putna Monastery on Saturday, on the 25th anniversary of his passing to the Lord.

His Holiness Father Damaschin Dorneanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți, officiated the Mass in the voivodeship church, then spoke about three essential virtues of the hierarch worth remembering. The first: observance of good order.

"Growing up in a family of faithful people, he kept what he learned there all his life. What he learned in the Neamț Monastery, where he entered as a brother and where he was a monk and received ordination as a deacon and priest, he did not forget them where God appointed him to serve the Church - neither in Jerusalem, nor in the almost 50 years of his stay in America", he emphasized the hierarch.

Good order, reverence and faithfulness

The second virtue of the hierarch was the spirit of sacrifice, continued the Most Reverend Father Damascene of Dornea. This proved both in the family with nine brothers in which he grew up, and in the pioneering times in the mission done in the Holy Land and...