Postul Mare şi Sfintele Paşti – paradigmă a asumării şi actualizării Botezului de către mădularele Bisericii
Great Lent and Easter - a paradigm of assuming and actualizing of the Baptism by the members of the Church

Summary/Abstract: Great Lent and Easter - a paradigm of assuming and actualizing of the Baptism by the members of the Church. In the early Church, the main purpose of Lent was to prepare the “catechumen” for Baptism which at that time was performed during the Paschal liturgy. But even when the Church rarely baptized adults and the institution of the catechumenate disappeared, the basic meaning of Lent remained the same. For even though we are baptized, what we constantly lose and betray is that we received at Baptism. Therefore Easter is our return every year to our own Baptism, whereas Lent is our preparation for that return, the slow and sustained effort to perform our own “passage” or “pascha” into the new life in Christ. If Lenten worship preserves even today its catechetical and baptismal character, it is not as “archeological” remains of the past, but as something valid and essential for us. For each year Lent and Easter are, once again, the rediscovery and the recovery by us of what we were made through our baptismal death and resurrection.

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