Fr. Felix Dubneac (en)

At the beginning of the third millennium, together with a Moldavian Neo-Austrian monk, Archimandrite Vitalie Danciu, we travelled to the North American continent, arriving one day at the Monastery of the Assumption in Rives Junction, Michigan. The monastery complex was strikingly similar to those in the country, I would say, with groves and fairytale glades, an hour and a half away from the big city of Detroit, where many Romanians live. Long before I went to the United States, I had heard a lot about this convent, where the nun Benedicta Braga had worked diligently and wisely, trained in the […]

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Archimandrite Felix Dubneac was born on 29 June 1912 in the commune of Voloave, Soroca County, in the family of David and Stefania Dubneac, and was christened Petre. He attended primary school in his native commune. Between 1927 and 1931 he studied at the school of church singers at the Dobrușa Monastery in Soroca County, and between 1935 and 1943 at the Theological Monastic Seminary at the Cernica Monastery near Bucharest. Between 1944 and 1953, he completed his university studies in Bucharest: Faculty of Theology (4 years), Academy of Fine Arts (5 years), Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (5 years), […]

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I got to know Fr. Felix Dubneac through his writings shortly after 1989. I met him physically in 1997, in Vatra, on the occasion of my ordination to the priesthood. I celebrated my first Holy Liturgy as a priest in the Monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rives Junction, Michigan, with my priestly associates, Fr. Anton Frunză and Archimandrite Felix Dubneac, while Archimandrite Roman Braga assisted at the altar. The gentle exhortations of Father Felix still echo in my mind: “So, Father, serve calmly, think that each Holy Liturgy is the first you are celebrating, don’t […]

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