On the event of the convention “Romanian Custom and Continuity: 100 Years of the Romanian Patriarchate, 70 Years of Antibiotice Iași,” Patriarch Daniel of Romania emphasised the necessity for nearer collaboration between science and spirituality within the mission of therapeutic and caring for individuals.
Reflecting on the Church’s long-standing dedication to each non secular and bodily well being, the Patriarch praised the work of Antibiotice S.A. Iași, a number one Romanian pharmaceutical firm celebrating its seventieth anniversary this 12 months. He highlighted the two-decade-long partnership between the Church and the corporate as a mannequin for constructive cooperation.
“We should work collectively for the well being of the soul and the physique of the individuals to whom we belong,” the Patriarch mentioned.
He famous that this cooperation displays the Church’s mission to take care of the entire human individual — physique and soul — created within the picture of God, and recalled that Jesus Christ Himself healed the sick and taught that those that are in poor health want a doctor.
The message additionally drew consideration to the manufacturing unit’s founding 12 months, 1955, which coincided with the canonization of a number of Romanian saints and the nationwide veneration of Saint Paraskeva of Iași, linking non secular and medical milestones in Romania’s historical past.
Please discover beneath Patriarch Daniel’s full message:
Custom and Continuity in Serving Human Well being
With a two-millennia-old Christian custom, the Romanian Orthodox Church continues to fulfil its sanctifying and serving mission as we speak, now in its centennial 12 months as a Patriarchate throughout the communion of common Orthodoxy.
The sanctifying and therapeutic vocation of the Church, nurtured over the centuries as testimony, service, and life within the spirit of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, embraces the entire human being, created within the picture of God — each physique and soul. The Holy Apostle Paul speaks with hope from the angle of eternity concerning the short-term situation of man on the earth: “Subsequently we don’t lose coronary heart. Though our outward man is perishing, but the inward man is being renewed day-to-day. For our mild affliction, which is however for a second, is working for us a much more exceeding and everlasting weight of glory… For we all know that if our earthly home, this tent, is destroyed, we have now a constructing from God, a home not made with arms, everlasting within the heavens.” (2 Corinthians 4:16–5:1)
From a non secular perspective, the precedence in a Christian’s life is communion in love with the eternally residing God, and this communion contains take care of the well being and sanctification of the physique as a “temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19).
Subsequently, recognizing the numerous healings carried out by Jesus Christ — each bodily and non secular — and recalling the reality He mentioned that “those that are sick want a doctor” (Mark 2:14), the Church has at all times stood close to those that endure. Non secular technique of non secular and bodily therapeutic have at all times been woven along with the medical information and strategies of every period.
Devoted to the true teachings of the religion and its charitable and academic traditions, the Romanian Orthodox Church is now creating its personal community of social and medical establishments whereas remaining open to cooperation and partnership with state establishments and NGOs targeted on healthcare.
Greater than 20 years have handed for the reason that Church established a strong collaboration with Antibiotice S.A. Iași, fostering the connection between science and spirituality within the service of individuals. Coincidentally, this famend pharmaceutical firm is celebrating 70 years in 2025.
The 12 months 1955, when the Iași manufacturing unit was based, can also be of non secular significance for our Church, being the 12 months of the proclamation of the canonization of a number of Romanian saints and the nationwide extension of the devotion to Saint Paraskeva of Iași, the protectress of Moldavia.
The achievements of a number of generations of specialists and staff at Antibiotice S.A. Iași — attained with dedication, perseverance, and creativity — are acknowledged nationally and internationally for his or her constructive affect on therapeutic and well being restoration.
The convention “Romanian Custom and Continuity: 100 Years of the Romanian Patriarchate, 70 Years of Antibiotice Iași” gathers as we speak clergy and specialists from the medical and pharmaceutical fields. By this occasion, we witness as soon as extra the significance of working collectively for the bodily and non secular well-being of our individuals.
We warmly congratulate Mr. Ioan Nani, Director of Antibiotice S.A. Iași, and all his colleagues on this 12 months of reflection and celebration. We pray to our Lord Jesus Christ, the Healer of souls and our bodies, to grant all of you well being, creativity, and energy for continued accomplishments within the noble mission of pharmaceutical analysis and manufacturing underneath the tenet of “science and soul.”
† DANIEL
Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
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