“Dad took care of us even after his death”
After my father died, my mother mourned for 20 years. She prayed a lot for us and for his soul. She loved him very much. In the first year, I noticed that my mother often dreamed about him, talked to my father and made a point of telling me in the morning what he said to her. She wrote down her dreams in a notebook. I felt that Dad was looking after us every day through his dreams. It was a year of revelation for me, through his direct intervention.
While he was alive, my father never told me directly that I should become a priest, although I understood after his death that this was what he wanted very much. All he told me was to study, to get a solid general education, with an emphasis on foreign languages, which he always helped me with. He wanted to study medicine and theology, but his application was rejected because he had been a political prisoner. My mother advised me to go to the seminary in his memory, but I had difficulty enrolling because of my father’s imprisonment. Then my father appeared to her in a dream and said:
“Go to Galați Square, to a priest with a long beard, he will help you!” My mother had to work, she didn’t have much time. She spent a few weeks looking for a priest with a long beard in the churches around Galați Square, but there was none. While she was still wandering around, she ended up in the church of Silvestru, where she met Father Constantin Galeriu. He didn’t know him. She told him that her husband had sent her and that she had been looking for him for several weeks. The priest was very surprised when he heard the whole story, but he listened carefully and understood that it was something providential. He told her what to do and how to proceed so that I would not have any problems in entering the seminary. I entered the seminary that same year. Then we became very close to Father and we loved him and took him as an example, although today he is no longer with us, because he has gone to be with the Lord.
(Fr. Mircea Uță – Rost Magazine, Year X, Number 106 of February 2012, p. 34, material prepared by Ioana Alina Dida)