Friendship with God, the greatest privilege: PS Timotei Prahoveanul at the Cotroceni Palace Churchtranslated

"Friendship with God and confessing His teaching offers the greatest privilege, as it happened in the case of Saints Serghie and Vah", said the Most Reverend Father Timotei Prahoveanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, on Wednesday, at the Cotroceni Palace Church, who honored his patrons.

This privilege of being close to God is greater than any position, emphasized the hierarch, who related the life of the two saints, military leaders from the entourage of Emperor Maximian Galerius. His Eminence spoke about their martyrdom and the fate of the most important fragments of their relics.

"What is the message of this celebration? Here, a long time ago, more precisely three and a half centuries ago, when a hermitage was erected by Şerban Cantacuzino, he chose Saints Sergius and Vah as protectors, because he had been persecuted, he had been threatened before he became a lord, and Saints Sergius and Vah helped him", said the vicar father.

"It is a message that has reached us long before this church was in the middle of a public work, and when it was established as a hermitage and then as a monastery, alongside...