Le Buisson ardent et l’Acathiste qui lui est consacré en langue française
The Burning Bush and the Akathist dedicated to it in French

Summary/Abstract: We propose a discursive analysis of the biblical motif of the burning bush, as exploited stylistically and interpreted spiritually and symbolically in the Akathist Hymn dedicated to it in Romanian culture by the monk Daniel (Daniil Sandu Tudor), the initiator of the Hesychast spiritual prayer movement “the Burning Bush” from the Antim monastery in Bucharest. We’ll be working on the French version of this Akathist, produced by archimandrite Father Placide Deseille with the help of one of the leading members of the “Burning Bush”, Father André Scrima. The Akathist Hymn associates the Mother of God with the burning bush, which burned without being consumed, evoked in the Book of Exodus, a “concrete” form of theophany witnessed by the prophet Moses on Mount Horeb (Exodus 3:2-5). According to patristic exegesis, Moses saw the Mother of God in the burning bush. This analogy with the burning bush underlines the fact that the Mother of God represents the symbol of uninterrupted prayer, “the Queen of prayer and her incarnation”, who intercedes unceasingly for the faithful before her Son.

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