On the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (the Sunday of the Healing of the Centurion’s Servant), His Eminence Vladimir, Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Nativity of the Lord in the capital.
Assisting the Primate were Archpriest Vadim Cheibaș, Secretary of the Metropolis and Eclesiarch of the Cathedral, along with the clergy and deacons of the holy shrine.
During the Divine Liturgy, two members of Dobrușa Monastery were ordained: Hierodeacon Agafonic (Ceban), a 2025 graduate of the Orthodox Theological Academy of Moldova, was ordained to the rank of hieromonk; and Subdeacon Ambrozie (Sîrbu), a first-year seminarian, was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon.
Following the Lord’s Prayer, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir gave his blessing for Father Vadim to deliver the homily. In his sermon, Father Vadim expounded on the Gospel passage recounting the healing of the Roman centurion’s servant in Capernaum, emphasising that only through faith and good deeds can we inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.
Faith is the essential condition for salvation; it is the means by which we receive divine grace, offered to us through Christ so that we may cooperate with Him. Faith itself is a gift from God, for it would not be possible without first sensing the call and attraction of Christ’s grace, which gives rise to it.
With the example of the centurion’s faith, who prayed for the healing of his servant, let us also confess our Saviour Jesus Christ as God and Providence of our lives, proclaiming aloud the good He continuously bestows upon us.
At the conclusion of the sermon, many of the faithful present at the Lord’s House partook of the Holy Eucharist, praising and blessing God.
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