Army of the Lord
[8][9] The founder of the Army of the Lord, Father Iosif Trifa, as well as consequent leaders, Ioan Marini and Traian Dorz, felt that "people needed to come to the Gospel and that the Orthodox Church in Romania needed to return to her true mission: to serve God and to represent God in the midst of our nation".
[11] In the 1930s and 1940s, "millions of Romanian Orthodox, including priests and religious, took part in its activities of evangelization, printing and open air meetings".
"[12] In his foundational book <
(1) Christocentrism (2) Sign of the cross (3) Receiving Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Oblation/Church Volunteer Work and Abstinence from Alcohol (The Danger of Alcohol Consumption, Which Curses Not only Individuals but Whole Nations) (4) Voluntariness (1) Discipleship which is Best Sermon[13] (2) Acts of mercy (3) Love and Prayer (4) Forgiveness and Justice (5) Distribution of Christian Literature After 1948, the movement was declared illegal by the communist regime.
During this period, the "Lord's Army", led by Traian Dorz in the difficult years of Stalin, who had spent 17 years in jail for this reason, was part of the "silent church", an informal ensemble of Christian believers from various denominations, which refused to obey the Communist authorities, being for this reason considered as "printing and spreading forbidden literature", "plotting against social ordering" and "enemies of the people.
