May 28, 2020
Today, After the Ascension Service, as I Went to Take the Blessed Bread from the Priest’s Paten, I Heard
“What you are doing is not good! You speak too much in public! And badly! With the Antena channels, with the televisions… not in our community…”
I admit that, in the shock of what I heard from the priest, I did not take in the whole rebuke meant for me. I mumbled “of course, you are right”, gave a “Christ is ascended” and fled.
Even now I have not entirely recovered. I know… I am a poor thing! And I am the first among sinners… truly, without false “modesty”. But… what have I said that was so grave of late? What have I done that was so scandalous in public? Where and when “of late”?
For of late I have defended, as far as I could and with all my knowledge and strength, the Church and her servants, even when things were not entirely in order. I have tried to defend as far as possible the Romanian citizen and believer and his rights… and I have not appeared on the Antena channels or the televisions for a long time (on the Antena channels for over a year and on “other televisions” for over two months), and that precisely because I understood “from sources” that I am considered too extremist, too Christian and too nationalist… in short, an unfrequentable person.
Well… now I find that I am no longer well received in church either. Although it is the church I have attended since 1999 (I know, already a long time… but I am already old!).
Probably I am too extremist… Probably. Just as I was considered when I received a slap from Băsescu in 2010 — for which reason I could not set foot in the choir stall for years. In the same church.
Who knows?
I shall not give the name of the priest nor the place of the incident… just as I should have said nothing of all this had the priest’s “recommendations” been made within confession or within a private conversation. But no, it was a warning given aloud, emphatically, which sounded almost like an excommunication, so that a few other persons heard and saw the reproof I received.
I am only curious to know what I did wrong… it is truly important to me to know that! And I hope to find out in the end.
Until then I hope that the good God will forgive us all, for everything each of us has done in word, in thought or in deed, willingly and unwillingly, knowingly and unknowingly.
So help us God!
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