Sanctification at the Voinești Parish church in Iași county: Let us be aware of the sin committed, urges Metropolitan Teofantranslated

Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina consecrated on Sunday the chapel at the base of the parish church "Nastrea Domnului" - Voinești II, in Iași county, on the occasion of the completion of the works carried out on the new liturgical space.

Starting from the parable of the merciless rich man and the poor Lazarus, His Eminence highlighted the way in which man must prepare for eternal life.

"Let us be aware of the sin committed. Let us run towards repentance to God through the Holy Confession, recognizing what we have done, and let us hope that God welcomes us into His Kingdom," said the Metropolitan.

"It is not wealth or poverty that gets us into heaven or hell, but how we knew how to manage the wealth that God gave us and how we were able to endure poverty or the troubles of this world."

The measure of the fulfillment of the commandments The Most Reverend Father Teofan emphasized that the image of Lazarus' body that was "full of boils" reflects the soul reality of each person: "But we have boils, that is, wounds, also on our body, that no one is completely healthy, but we have many boils on our soul."

"The worst disease or wound is that we...