INTERCORELAŢIA DINTRE SFÂNTA SCRIPTURĂ ŞI SFÂNTA LITURGHIE ÎN VIAŢA BISERICII ŞI A CREDINCIOŞILOR
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOLY SCRIPTURE AND HOLY LITURGY IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH AND ITS BELIEVERS

Summary/Abstract: The Relationship Between Holy Scripture and Holy Liturgy in the Life of the Church and its Believers. Holy Scripture offers specific testimony regarding the presence and work of the Divine Logos in history and the possibility and responsibility of humanity to achieve deification. In Scripture, through the Lord Christ, rational truth is united and identified with personal Truth. In this sense, the words of Scripture, in addition to the presentation of past and future events, reveal Christ, renewing and animating believers in the life of the Church. Through the Divine Liturgy, the life of Christ emanating from Scripture becomes the Church’s life, always alive and ever present for all who belong to Him, regardless of whichever time and place they live. From the liturgical perspective, Scripture must be seen as the path that leads one to Christ, nourished along the way by the divine food and drink that gives them life and strengthens them in their search. The Divine Liturgy lives and breathes Scripture in the most sensitive and real manner possible; therefore, the content of Divine Liturgy, one can say, is presented as a sublime “patristic commentary of Scripture.” The Divine Liturgy achieves a connection between the mystical “today” of Scripture and the meaningful dimension of the liturgical “today” in the deep reality of the eternal “today” of the Kingdom of Heaven, present here and now. Among the Orthodox, Scripture not only prepares the faithful to participate in the Divine Liturgy, but the Liturgy but also spiritually empowers then to experience the wider depths of the Divine Word for greater personal discovery. There exists a reciprocal relationship between Scripture and Liturgy that is not limited to the house of worship, but extends outward in the daily lives of believers. According to the Holy Fathers, Holy Scripture must never be absent from one’s spiritual life. The honor and obedience manifested in its words are identified with obedience to God. Scripture brings spiritual power and a true sense of actualized existence into the life of the Christian believer, compelling him or her to pray more fervently and personally involved in the Divine Liturgy, in private prayer, and other church offices.

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