Alexandru Mironescu – a strong confessor of our faith
The scientist, the fascinating professor, the thinker with a wide horizon of culture, of refinement, of information, the consecrated writer that Alexandru Mironescu was, was also a profound believer, a practising believer and a strong and always substantial confessor of our faith.
And it was a paradox of his life that this eternal thinker, so independent, so new and unpredictable, always wanted to know the most accurate, the most authentic, the most rigorous positions of faith in matters of faith.
Alexandru Mironescu loved the authentic faith, knew it, lived it and confessed it without any arrogance, on the contrary, “with simplicity and normality”, as he liked to say, when we talk about the most dear and serious things of our human life. Not to mention that Alexandru Mironescu was also a clear and convinced ecumenist[1].
The manuscripts he left behind will, in time, testify to all his faith.
This faith led him to say that man is like a god, created in the midst of the world, a transfigurer and pathfinder towards the fullness of life.
It was his faith that led him to make use of the services of the Church so many times in his life, and especially during that terrible cancer, which ended so well.
And it was also his faith that gave those Christian Socratic accents to his words, when he said: “When the end comes, I will not disappear. I will have different relationships with you, with children, with these things, with people, but I will not disappear, I will endure”.
For him, as for all Christians, death is not an extinction in non-being, death is a birth to another order of existence, to life in all its fullness, where the just shine like the sun, according to the word of the Saviour. […]
Personally, I thank the good Lord that in my life I have had the privilege of knowing a man of such rare essence on the face of the earth as he is!
Let those of us who loved him pray for him, may God forgive him and rest him in the world of the righteous.
(Arch. Benedict Ghiuș, 2 January 1973, speech on the occasion of the death of Professor Alexandru Mironescu – Rost Magazine no. 55 of September 2007)
[1] In the sense of a strong desire to unite the Churches, without disregarding the dogmas of the Orthodox Church.