„Love and Truth” charity and education Centrer

The free Clinic is endowed with doctor's offices, a pharmacy, waiting-rooms and a medical records
office containing over 45,000 records of patients treated up to now.
For the benefit of our patients over 190,000 consultations have been made so far. At present, we offer approx.
800 consultations and medical services per month. The medication delivered free-of-charge corresponds to a
approx.300 prescriptions.

Until the year 2009 the medication came mostly from donations.

The principal donor was the Arc-en-Ciel Association, France. We also received occasional supplies from
Rumänien Hilfe Maintal/Germany and others.

“Farmec” C.S. of Cluj and Terapia Cluj have donated various sanitary materials, medicine and money to the
Polyclinic.

Currently, most medication is purchased through grant funds, based on Law 350/1, from the Department of
Medical and Social Assistance of Cluj City Hall.

Also, we receive donations of medicines and medical supplies from the Association "Christian Aid Ministries"
Florești.

The center organized, and we intend to restart soon adults catechesis and bible study groups, and in the present a mothers group and a fathers group are running on a monthly basis.

The library has spaces available for those interested in consulting the books. There is also the possibility of borrowing the books.

Schedule: Monday- Friday, 9:00 -13:00.

The program of these movie evenings includes an extract of aprox. 15 min from a documentary movie, followed by the movie of the evening and in the last part of the evening there is a moment of discussions, when we share our impressions after watching the movie.

For information about the titles of our next movies, please follow the Events section of our site.

At the moment we have suspended the activity of the club circles and we are looking for volunteers who could assume responsibilities in leading and coordinating its activities.

Each year there are two chastity education campaigns – one in April and one in October and there are about 10-15 American students attending this campaign.

The teachers who want to invite them to their schools are asked to contact us in order to set the time frame.

The course, organized in partnership with The Department of Family and Life of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Cluj – Gherla, constitute an aid for priests in their pastoral work.
Thus, each couple starts and ends the marriage preparation course with the parish priest, who will revisit with them the basic catechetical notions, then the effective preparation for the celebration of the sacrament of marriage (including receiving the sacrament of confession).
Each couple will have one private meeting with one of the course trainers, for a discussion of the relationship maturity assessment test.

Course topics:

Session 1 – The human person and the Sacrament of Matrimony

The mystery and the dignity of the human person.
Marriage vocation from natural and supernatural perspective.
Marriage as a sacrament, essential properties, purposes and effects of the sacrament of marriage.

Session 2 – Psychology and Communication

The differences between men and women and their implications.
Couple and family.communication.
Development stages of the marital relationship.
Specific family crises.

Session 3 – Vocation and Spirituality

The call and the pilgrimage towards holiness. Marriage as a Christian vocation. Specific aspects of the spirituality of marriage: conjugal and parental spirituality. Stages of spiritual growth and growth in married love. Means for increasing conjugal love.

Session 3+ – Spirituality of the priest’s family

(For candidates to priesthood and their fiancees)
The priestly vocation and the specific elements of priestly spirituality. The relationship between priesthood and marriage.
The vocation of the priest’s wife. The priest family as a model in the community and the Church: prayer, humility, charity, hospitality, dedication, mission, receiving and educating children.

Session 4 – Moral

General moral principles.
Moral aspects of married life (marital and parental).
Sexual Morality (the couple’s fertility – but also responsibility, conjugal chastity) and bioethics
(contraception, abortion, reproduction techniques, natural family planning as radically different alternative).

Session 5 – Medical – Part I

Natural family planning (Rötzer method).
Learning to discover the fertile and infertile periods of the couple.

Session 6 – Civil and canonical legislation:

Church canon law – the sacrament of marriage: form, consent and impediments; canonical rights and obligations of spouses and parents, validation of the marriage and separation of spouses.
Civil law: the rights and obligations of spouses. Legal effects of marriage.

Session 7- Organizing your life

Family priorities.
Organizing your prayer life, your house, your budget, your menu, saving money and other practical issues.

Session 8 – The testimony of a couple

In this session we invite a married couple to tell their own love story, before and after marriage and to share their experience of life.

Session 9 – Medical – Part II

Natural family planning (Rötzer method).  
Special situations: after birth, during breastfeeding, the pre-menopause period, after renouncing oral contraception.

in these meetings, debates or conferences, we try to emphasis as much as possible the education through dialogue. The purpose of these meetings is to provide answers to specific problems of Christian life and society today.

For information on the following topics, please watch the Events section of our site.