Sfânta Liturghie – cânt teologic și școală a rugăciunii
Divine Liturgy - theological song and school of prayer

Author(s): Andrei Irina
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Holy Liturgy; catechetical significance; orthodox worshippers’ life; moral values;
Summary/Abstract: The most gracious and highest form of manifesting the religious dimension through which man can mirror his sacramental connection with God is the divine service. The divine service is „the expression of the most sincere prayer, the most profound religous experience; it is the exhibition of the Christian aspect in its purest and most Christian form... it is Heaven on Earth”. In its service, the Holy Liturgy will be for eternity, on Earth and in Heaven, the great source of communion, light and divinity. „It is living in heaven, sitting next to the Creator and His Saints, pure and loving communion [...], gratitude and doxology brought to God with unworthy lips and the beginning of eternal doxology with spiritual lips, together with the angels...”. Due to the fact that „the greatest blaze of the liturgic life is the Holy Liturgy”3 and „it is the fountain that mainly nourishes the worshippers’ communion and everyday life”4, it has been chosen in our approach to emphasize the extent to which the liturgic experience, the attendance to the Holy Liturgy transforms, leads and strenghtens the othodox worshippers’ lives on the path of good, truth and faith; the extent to which this bring them nearer, consciously and thoroughly „with faith and love”5 to the Holy Communion that has come and will have come. Shortly, it is our aim to emphasize in this article the catechetical significance of the Holy Liturgy. The History of our Church stands proof for the divine atmosphere of the Liturgy where were educated generations after generations of rightful worshippers; pious, confesing, and martyrs were strenghtened through it on the „stone of faith” (Mt. 16, 18).That is why today, when the suffocating effects of secularization are so highly felt, we are called to rediscover, through the service, the meaning and the balance of life, „the Way and the Truth” (Ioan 14, 6).

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