Patriarch Daniel sends message for New Year 2022

The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, wished health and happiness, peace and joy in his message for the New Year 2022.

"On the occasion of the New Year 2022, we wish you all health and happiness, peace and joy, along with the traditional greeting 'Many Happy Returns!'," Patriarch Daniel said in a video on the Basilica Agency's Facebook page.

Patriarch Daniel will officiate a service of thanksgiving and blessing in the Patriarchal Cathedral on New Year's Eve.

The service of the beginning of the new calendar year will be performed in all places of worship of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

According to basilica.ro, this service is a good opportunity to celebrate in public worship the time of passage between the years and "to thank the Holy Trinity for the benevolence received, to ask for the blessing of the beginning year and to interirorise the meanings of the royal feast of 1 January, by calling upon the saving name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of the world and the Lord of the ages."