MORTIFICATION AND SUFFERING. THE ASCETICS AND THE MYSTICS OF SAINT PAUL
MORTIFICATION AND SUFFERING. THE ASCETICS AND THE MYSTICS OF SAINT PAUL

Summary/Abstract: This study attempts to reconsider the issue of mortification or sufferingstarting from the thesis of Metropolitan Nicolae Mladin, L’Ascèse et la mystiquede Saint Paul. Our approach focuses on the central concept of ascese. This isthe materialization of baptism is the extension of the death and resurrection ofJesus Christ in conscious life: asceticism is the abandonment of the old man(mortification) in favor of that renewed in Christ (imitatio Christi). In fact, theascetic mortification and physical and spiritual pain are the concrete expressionof the sacramental and mystical death. The meaning ascetic (Academic) ofsuffering, which is essential for Christians, revolves around the love for the crossis the supreme form of negation of self (mortification). Martyrage is thedevelopment of asceticism. Our study also intends to identify the spiritualmeaning of suffering as an expression of two types: human and divine order.The suffering becomes the sign, the event, the externalization of the ontologicalparticipation.

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