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Remembrance in Time
It is regrettable finding that the attitude and the contribution of the Primes of the
Orthodox Church from R.S.S.M towards the persecution of the religious feeling and of
the national traditions by the Soviet authorities during 1945-1962 was anti-Romanian
and, many times, contrary to their status of Church leaders. Intimidated or tempted by the
worldly, the church bishops submitted herein also proved spiritual weakness, often
forgetting that the “Church’s reason to be is to preach the Gospel, as Saviour Christ asked
from his Apostles after the Resurrection and, through them, from the followers of the
overall Church; and to share with the people, through the Sacraments, the saving grace” 38 .
However, despite the expectations of the atheist State, the mission of the Orthodox
Church continued, being present and glorious in the souls of the hundreds of thousands
Bessarabians who remained faithful to the Church of the Apostles and of the Holy
Fathers.
References
1. Pasat,V.I., Orthodoxy in Moldova. Volume 1, Doc. № 58, pp. 278-286.
2. Pasat,V.I., Hard pages of Moldova’s history, Moscow, editing house Terra, 1994, pp.
651-653, (translated by V. Besleaga in Cross overthrown by regime, the Raciula
Monastery, 1959, Prut International Publishing House, 2006, pp. 186-188).
3. Păcurariu M., Bessarabia, aspects from Church’s and Romanians histories, Iaşi,
1993, p. 125.
4. Petraru Gh., Orthodoxy and Proselytism”, Trinitas Publishing House, Iasi, 2000, p.
31.
5. National Archive of the Republic of Moldavia, as follows ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 5.
6. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 10.
7. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 12.
8. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 24.
9. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 56.
10. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 64.
11. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1,d. 65.
12. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 91.
13. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1,d. 93.
14. ANRM, F. 3046, i. 1, d. 105.
15. Archive of the Social-Political Organizations from R. Moldavia, F. 51, i. 9, d. 44.
38 Pr. Prof. Gheorghe Petraru, Orthodoxy and Proselytism”, Trinitas Publishing House, Iasi, 2000,
p. 31.