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Kazania Peregryna z Opola w świetle procesu świdnickich beginek z 1332 roku

Author(s): Marcin Kiełbus / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to direct the attention of the public to the heretofore neglected relationship between the popular volume of the sermons of Peregryn of Opole and the bourgeoning anti‑heretical discourse of the turn of the 13th century, in which the Dominican Order remained deeply involved. The article focuses on the figure of the author mainly in the context of the activity of the Inquisition, but also in the context of the secular reforms of the Fourth Council of the Lateran, which adopted a polemic stance with regard to insubordinate devotion.

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Refleksy kultu św. Jana z Kęt w okresie przedbeatyfikacyjnym w materialnej spuściźnie ks. Grzegorza Jana Zdziewojskiego z Łasku (na marginesie jubileuszu 250‑rocznicy kanonizacji Świętego)

Author(s): Jan Rodak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

St. John Cantius is the primary patron saint of Poland. Due to his status as a professor in Alma Mater, he is particularly popular among the academic society, which popularized his worship across the centuries and contributed summa summarum to his canonization. The road of John Cantius in super Apotheosim was, however, long and full of dramatic twists and turns. It took a lot of effort on the part of many people to bring the canonical process to fruition. One of the people who made significant contribution to the popularization of John Cantius in the pre‑beatification stage (before 1676) was Rev. Grzegorz Jan Zdziewojski of Łask, a man whose commitment and sacrifices for the cause of John Cantius have been for centuries disregarded by the source texts and other studies. Thus, it seems prudent to use the 250th anniversary of the canonization of John Cantius (1767–2017) as a good occasion to redress the disservice done to this unjustly forgotten preacher, poet and bibliophile of Łask. The aim of the following paper is to bring the first poet of the Łask and Sieradz area back from the oblivion of history, who should be also regarded as an apostle of mercy and a martyr as well as the forefather of the regional movement in the literature of Polish Baroque.

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Раннохристиянски мъченици, от които, според житията, изтича "мляко вместо кръв"

Author(s): Eva Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the present study, there are 40 saints, whose lives describe that in their martyrdom death from the wounds of their bodies, and especially when their heads were cut off, milk was flowing instead of blood. Of the presented cases, 20 are women and 20 are men of different age. As described in the vitae, it is established that they lived between the 1-4 century, which coincided with the early Christian period, but there are also three exceptions of the martyrs of the 5th, 7th and 11th centuries. Regarding the localization of the described phenomenon, it was found that the saints originated from different geographic areas – in the East from Palestine and Tyre (present-day Lebanon), in North Africa - on the lands of today's Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, in various regions of Asia Minor, The Balkan Peninsula (particularly on the territory of today's Bulgaria and Greece) and West to Gaul (in particular Italy, France and Belgium). In general, the explanation given in the present study of the miracle of milk is that it is a sign of their holiness and their heavenly change already on the earth.

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Slovenac među Hrvatima i Srbima: Franc Žužek, župnik u Glini, 1927. — 1955.

Author(s): Igor Mrkalj / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Franc Žužek rodio se 21. studenog 1886. u selu Marolče kod Ljubljane, od oca Antona i majke Marijane, rođene Virant. Poslije završenog školovanja zaređen je za svećenika i već 26. srpnja 1912. služi svoju mladu misu u Kočevju. Nedugo zatim, počinje vršiti svećeničku službu u četiri katoličke župe u Istri. Međutim, nakon raspada Austro-Ugarske 1918. godine, a naročito nakon 1920. kada je Istra pripojena Kraljevini Italiji, Žužek se suočio s talijanskom politikom odnarođivanja slovenskog i hrvatskog stanovništva. Ona se dodatno pogoršala 1922. godine, nakon preuzimanja vlasti od strane talijanskih fašista, koji su Žužeka, kao i mnoge druge svećenike, protjerali iz Istre 1923. godine. Žužek tako dolazi u Zagreb, tj. Kraljevinu Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca kao izbjegli svećenik, gdje mu je u siječnju 1924. ponuđeno upražnjeno mjesto upravitelja župe Maja u glinskom dekanatu, na samoj periferiji Zagrebačke nadbiskupije. O svojim prvim dojmovima u novoj sredini, Žužek je zapisao: ”Težak će biti moj život u Maji – jer sam odgojen u dalekim krajevima: u Gorici i u Trstu; tamo sam svršio nauke – i službovao sretno među dobrim istarskim narodom. [...]

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Creating the Religious Identity and Affiliation in Neo-Protestant Children and Young People in Communist Romania

Author(s): Ciprian Corneliu Ciurea / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

There is no need to be a specialist in order to be able to see that progress, generally, whether it is the progress of a nation or of a church, is based on education, especially in today’s Romanian society, when the past education makes its flaws obvious in a very clear manner. This is even more visible among young people who, for decades, have been deprived of religious, Christian education, and are now raising serious moral issues.

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PARISH CATECHESIS AND PASTORAL MINISTRY IN ORTHODOXY

Author(s): Ivo Yanev / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This text aims to present parish religious education as an important part of the priest’s ministry in the parish community. Religious education at school and religious education/catechism training in parochial Sunday schools have been examined and analyzed. The role and ministry of the parish priest in religious education in the Orthodox Church is presented.

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DISCURSUL IDENTITAR ÎN MEDIUL EDUCOGEN. O ANALIZĂ PRAGMATICĂ A INTERACȚIUNILOR CATEHETICE ACTUALE DIN DIASPORA

Author(s): Anamaria Gheorghiu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Starting from the instructive-educational features of current catehetic activities, this paper aims to analyse the architecture of discourses, interactions and verbal means that stimulate argumentation in such contexts, from the multimodal, multichannel perspective of the catehetic medium. The corpus, comprising current Romanian spoken language, which presents the three facets of language: verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal, was put together by transcribing personal recordings taken in Vienna, Austria. It is analysed as a whole, based on the statuary and communicative features of these religious discoursive events, which, in turn, in various proportions, reach the four objectives of the catehetic speaker’s communicative intentions: to inform – persuade -convince - form a collective identity. The last one is strategically addressed, by stressing the feelings of belonging, by appealing to the collective memory and by stimulating its prospective function, through various discoursive means that define discourse as being identity discourse.

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EFFECTIVENESS OF PREACHING IN TIMES OF CRISES: CHRISTIAN VALUES AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Author(s): Ventsislav Popivanov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Preaching to contemporary Bulgarian flock, we sincerely believed that concerns as civil or world war and local or global pandemics are not highly likely to reappear from the near past of homiletics as holy church tradition. Church literature is rich in providing support to people in crises, but our generation hoped that in our lifetime in our advanced civilisation of post-post-modern age, such issues are not central to our life, because of value and cultural advancement. These years, global human society has been preoccupied with problems seemingly new to Orthodox spiritual healing tradition. The emergent global situation challenged especially those of us who had grown up yet in the 20th century, or before Internet, social media, and artificial intellect. And nowadays the risk of our preaching effectiveness is not only to sound outdate, and be unable to meet recent needs of our parishioners. Loss of interest in church preaching is even milder problem, than the danger to reach the hearts of believers by a homily leading to troubles as discrimination or incrimination, and church message that is populist and ideologised and could divide and polarise Eucharistic community. Given that we had reached certain homiletic effectiveness, but suddenly we were influenced by civic spirit, it is better for our parishioners to be rigid to our messages for some time, as they manage to overcome media noise and fake news, instead of leaving church gathering.

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Cesta do skrytých komnat kněžské „duše“

Author(s): Petr Husák / Language(s): English,Czech Publication Year: 0

I have to admit that I have always been attracted to themes connected to the changing lives of Catholic priests in the 19th and 20th centuries, transformations to their identity, to their role in society and their pastoral preferences. I have also been interested in how the development of modernity impacted on the religious needs of people from village communities and the dynamically expanding towns, and the extent to which priests and the religious elites were able to respond to these changes. A great deal of scholarly attention has also been focused on issues linked to the mobilizing potential of the priest and the cultural struggle at the end of the 19th century. How were the youth educated in such an atmosphere and to what extent were priests and the faithful aware of being at the centre of a merciless struggle between ideas and even ideologies?

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Rugăciunea pentru cei adormiţi, legătura iubirii între cer şi pământ, exprimată în Sfânta Scriptură şi Sfânta Tradiţie

Author(s): Cristin-Ioan Loghin / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

In Orthodoxy, the cult of the deceaseds has a special importance and scope. After the death of a person, the soul, by being eternal, remains in touch with the Church. The foundations of prayer and worship for those who passed are the following: a) Christian love; b) the example of practicing the prayers ones for each other, especially in difficult times of trial; c) man's dialogical relationship with God; d) the command received to pray for one another; e) the pedagogy of God's sacrificial love for us and f) heaven and hell are states and places of good and evil. The duty of the living to pray for the deceased is a constant mark in the life of the Church. This teaching has always existed and has been transposed into the practice of the Church. Patristic literature confirms not only the existence but also the practice of prayers for the passed ones. Also, the Holy Scriptures, both of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, often speak of prayers and almsgiving for the deceaseds. The Holy Church, through the worship of the deceased, realizes an extraordinary spiritual connection between the living members and the deceased members, united by love for Christ and living in Christ. At the same time, this practice is a real school, where all Christians have learned generation after generation, which no one and nothing could tear down, but over the centuries, it has become stronger.

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Sfântul Paisie Velicikovski revigorator al monahismului și părinte al rugăciunii lui Iisus

Author(s): Ioan Micu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, one of the most accomplished figures of the Romanian spiritual ife in the 18th century, was among the most prominent teachers of large monastic communities and of the Jesus Prayer. His spiritual teachings have left an indelible mark on the spiritual revival of monastic life in Romania at the time. Astute organiser of monasteries, founder of monastic settlements and rules, Saint Paisius worked relentlessly to enrich the soul with Virtues as he found the right balance between prayer, reading and everyday administrative work. A man of unbelievable insight, highly experienced in spiritual matters, and a very gifted teacher, his life in Christ, the fulfilment of commandments and monastic duties attracted hundreds of disciples who received his guidance on the royal path to salvation. Saint Paisius also painstakingly collected and translating the writings of the Holy Fathers, an endeavour started on Mount Athos but completed by the translation schools that he founded in the monasteries of Dragomirna, Secu and Neamț, in particular. On the basis of these translations Philokalia that was later published in Romania, of the one printed in1793 at Moscow, Dobrotoliube, but also helped revive the monastic life in Romania, Russia and Ukraine based on the communal living rules that Saint Paisius established and his disciples, settled in other places and monasteries across these countries pursued. In this study, the author aims to highlight the new elements brought by Saint Paisius in the chinovial life and how they contributed to the spiritual revival of monasticism.

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Rugăciunea și creștinismul românesc în viziunea lui Simeon Mehedinți

Author(s): Ioan Puiu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

How the prayer and the work of the Church was seen at the beginning of the XX century by the great researcher and teacher Simeon Mehedinți, the one that said “the value of one people, and also of every human in part, can be measured by how much one understood from the Gospels and how much he can follow Christ” and which were the experiences that led him to this conclusion? Which were the role and the place of the Church among the public institutions from Simeon Mehedinți point of view, who considered Christianity “the safest background for both individual and national progress”? Which are the differences between Catholics, other nations of Cristian-orthodox and Romanian Orthodoxy, “the one that do not know the narrow sight of pharisees” and whose beliefs are “appropriate for a healthy man, who enjoys the gifts of life (which is far from both the intolerance and decadence of other peoples)”? This study presents Simeon Mehedinți vision upon prayer and identifies, compares and makes an analyses of Romanian Christian orthodoxy traits, considering other Christian peoples and other religions.

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A missionary perspective of the importance that spiritual growth has in the lives of the faithful in accordance to the writings of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

Author(s): Simeon Purice / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper analyses from a missionary perspective, in accordance to the writings of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the importance that spiritual growth has in the lives of the faithful. The growth of the Church can be explained through the synergic collaboration of God with man, through the appropriation of the gospel by the faithful, who were models of Christ to the people of the world. Thus, the mission was fulfilled through the exemplary lives of Christians, the love of God being made accessible to them for the ones of the world. Expressing their faith through an authentic spirituality, Christians taught there neighbours righteousness, simplicity and innocence. They showed the world a certain way of living, but also of dying. They were present and in solidarity with their society, but also harmonizing their lives with the exigence of the gospel. The height of the spiritual lives of the faithful is a historical permanentization of the reality of the incarnation of the Son of God in the world, making possible the mission of the Church by the Grace of the Holy Spirit.

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Sfântul Cuvios Paisie Velicicovschi, promotor al isihasmului neamțean

Author(s): Benedict Sauciuc / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The life of Saint Paisie is very well known and he dedicated himself to God from his youth. During his time in Mount Athos he discovered the work and thoughts of Saint Gregory Palamas and decided to adopt the hesychastic way of life. His coming to Neamt Monastery as a abbot gave him the possibility to practice Lord’s Prayer and the hesychastic spirituality. The paper underlines much of his work done during his abbacy at Neamt Monastery.

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Viziunea lui Clement Alexandrinul despre rugăciune

Author(s): Mărioara Drăgan / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The endeavour of Clement of Alexandria to weave the power of the graceful unity between theology as a prayer experienced in personal life, as a spiritual exercise in the complex process of contemplation, as evidenced by his writings, and theology as a science he strives to argue using the tools offered by the existing tools of his time, philosophy and science. The connection between the two comes from a theoretical contemplative and visionary practice, as one may say. Clement passes from knowledge as science to knowledge as mystery, from an external theology to an inner theology, namely to mystical theology. The spiritual union of man with God, through the view of uncreated light, will be identified in the context of hesychastic theology by Saint Simeon the New Theologian, a few centuries later. Clement's influence on the evolution of the later Christian spirituality, especially on the Eastern one, has been proved especially in the treatises of prayer by Origen and Evagrius Ponticus.

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From the Light of Prayer to Pastoral Theology: Aspects of Episcopal Ministry in the Writings of Saint Ephrem the Syrian

Author(s): Bassam Nassif / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Saint Ephrem the Syrian has a special message to offer to theology today. The model he gives in opening the spiritual eyes for the light of Christ to radiate in his body, leads to radiating this light into pastoral action. Thus, pastoral theology ought to be based on this experience of light, practiced in spiritual words and actions. Saint Ephrem wrote teaching hymns, defending the faith against heresies, and fighting social injustice. As an enlightened man of God, he became a master of both spirituality and pastoral ministry. This research aims to analyze how Saint Ephrem translates his personal experience of light into pastoral work, by examining how he expresses his theological thought, interprets pastoral theology, and presents the ministry of episcopacy in particular. For this Antiochian saint, theology is a hymn to the Light, translated into genuine acts of love, faith, and life.

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De „mistique ordonnance” du prêtre (I): les prières au cours de l’Office de Matines et leurs significations théologiques, liturgiques et spirituels

Author(s): Lucian Vasile Petroaia / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Few Christians know that, apart from what it is seen in the church (movements, gestures or small liturgical rituals), the priest also performs unseen ordinances, required by his status as a sanctified person and by the liturgical services. Some of these „secret ordinances” are prayers that the priest says in the Holy Altar, in parallel with the service that takes place in the church, without them being heard by the faithful. Of these, in the present study, I have chosen to make a theological, liturgical, and spiritual analysis of the text of the prayers which the priest reads „in secret”, while the six Psalms from the beginning of Matins are read aloud at the pew. Apart from a few brief references by the priest professors Petre Vintilescu, Ene Branişte and Dumitru Stăniloae, in Romanian theology there is, so far, no analytical study on this topic.

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Interesul Sfântului Paisie Velicikovski pentru scrierile filocalice

Author(s): Hrisant Tsachakis / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

It is very well known in the orthodox balkan world that the holy Abbot Paisie Velicikofski from Neamts, is one of the greatest ascetic and spiritual father of our Orthodox Church and represents an example for all Christians. For those who are living in monasteries, he is a model of ascetic effort and spiritual living. He fully fulfills the quality of Christian, monk, abbot and man of culture, being the initiator of an important translation work of patristic, liturgical and canonical writings, a work that he liked very much. Regarding the philolocal activity and the concern of Saint Paisius for the writings of the great mystical and ascetic fathers of the Church, shows him, without a doubt, as the first Russian, renewer of the monastic life in the Balkans, following the Athonite way of life, thus renewing the ascetic tradition and restoring the practice of heart-mental prayer, which had been almost forgotten.

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