ЕВХАРИСТИЙНА АНГЕЛОЛОГИЯ - ИЗТОЧНИ И ЗАПАДНИ ЛИТУРГИЧНИ РЕЦЕПЦИИ В ИЗСЛЕДВАНЕТО И ИНТЕРПРЕТИРАНЕТО НА АНГЕЛСКАТА ПЕСЕН
EUCHARIST ANGELOLOGY - EASTERN AND WESTERN LITURGICAL RECEPTIONS IN THE STUDY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE ANGEL’S SONG

Summary/Abstract: In his religious quest and through participation in the Church’s liturgical worship, the Christian joins, naturally and supernaturally, the invisible ministry of the angels in the process of adoration and glorification of God expressed in the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Through a mystical union of the visible and invisible servants of the Lord’s Μensa (cf Lords Supper), through the manifestation of God’s holiness, such as the phenomenon of the doxology - the union between men and the angelic host in the Liturgy, that incessant doxology – theology is achieved, reflected in the Sanctus and Post-Sanctus of the Eucharistic anaphora of the Church, which is identified as the liturgical reception of the “Angel’s Song”. The hypothesis of a harmonious participation of humans, on an equal footing with angels, in the Church’s Eucharist, its earthly and heavenly dimension, its connection with both the ancient Jewish religious tradition and the early Christian Eucharistic prayers in the East and in the West is brought out. Examples and testimonies of the ancient sources on the subject of Eucharistic angelology are given and an interpretation is made in the tradition of the liturgical theology of the Church.In his religious quest and through participation in the Church’s liturgical worship, the Christian joins, naturally and supernaturally, the invisible ministry of the angels in the process of adoration and glorification of God expressed in the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Through a mystical union of the visible and invisible servants of the Lord’s Μensa (cf Lords Supper), through the manifestation of God’s holiness, such as the phenomenon of the doxology - the union between men and the angelic host in the Liturgy, that incessant doxology – theology is achieved, reflected in the Sanctus and Post-Sanctus of the Eucharistic anaphora of the Church, which is identified as the liturgical reception of the “Angel’s Song”. The hypothesis of a harmonious participation of humans, on an equal footing with angels, in the Church’s Eucharist, its earthly and heavenly dimension, its connection with both the ancient Jewish religious tradition and the early Christian Eucharistic prayers in the East and in the West is brought out. Examples and testimonies of the ancient sources on the subject of Eucharistic angelology are given and an interpretation is made in the tradition of the liturgical theology of the Church.

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