PRAYER AND SILENCE
PRAYER AND SILENCE

Summary/Abstract: The Metropolitan's creation in lyrics, but also in the rhetorical notation as such, is a sweeping statement that everything reminiscent of the decaying, rotting body is fit for eternity, namely for that holy icon, where "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption." The beginning, not only of the heavenly eternity, but even that of the lyrical eternity, of the terrestrial order, reflects a similar sense of gestation. These words composed and chosen with great care by Valeriu Anania emphasize the two existing layers of life, the microcosmos and the macrocosmos. But Christian ontology understands and perceives such entities with a double connotation or on a slightly more multidimensional level, as real and virtual. It can be lightly noticed that Valeriu Anania far transcended the realm of a mere Christian, a true man of Ecclesiology that embodied the meaning for which humanity is longing. He was not only the poet, but also the preacher who offered certainty and that permanent rest carried forward and preserved as a value or guideline towards the fruitful, abundant, multicolored garden that never knew the threat of barrenness.

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