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Ipostazierea Sfintei Treimi

Author(s): Alexandru Nicoară / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07/2022

abstract in englezaThe Orthodox faith glorifies the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – the Holy Trinity, a God triune in Persons or Hypostases, but unique in Being. Following the teaching of the Holy Scriptures and the teaching established by the Holy Fathers at the seven Ecumenical Synods, the Orthodox Church confesses that the Holy Trinity means three Persons (hypostases) who share the same substance or nature (Greek ousia). All three Divine Persons are consubstantial with one another, sharing the same essence (gr. Homoousios) and coeternal. For the Cappadocian holy fathers, the unity of the Persons of the Holy Trinity also derives from the unity of their action. Another representative contribution of the Cappadocian fathers is the assertion that the Holy Spirit is homoousios and homotimos with the Father and the Son. In Orthodoxy, the emphasis is on both the consubstantiality and the trihypostaticity of the Godhead, as well as on the relations within them, because the Holy Spirit, called the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of Christ, rests and shines in Jesus Christ, raising people to the measure of the loving relationships among the Divine Persons.

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Binecuvântaţii noştri părinţi – Icoane de smerenie

Author(s): Andrei Andreicuţ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2022

The article evokes contemporary spiritual fathers whom the author met and who influenced his life. The confessor priest is the man who, shunning his passions, becomes knowledgeable of divine things and has a righteous judgment towards human things, thanks to which, without any danger for himself, he knows how to guide others on the path of God. Spiritual parents help a whole world to get rid of passions. They are the artisans of repentance.

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Paisie şi Paisianismul

Author(s): Ilarion V. Felea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2022

This study presents the life of the pious Paisius from Neamţ and his activity in Moldavia, how the Paisian movement was born, what was the order of the monastic community, as well as some of his teachings, experience and characteristics. By Paisianism we mean the monastic revival and the cultural movement rooted in the Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, initiated at Mount Athos and perfected in 18th century Moldavia by the monk Paisius Velichkovsky.

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Un ierarh contemporan taumaturg, iubitor de muzică şi poezie

Author(s): Gabriel Mândrilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2014

The text analyzes the poetic gift of St. Nektarios of Aegina and his turn of phrase. As St. Nektarios himself confesses, poetry was for him as it is for the entire cult and liturgical theology of the Orthodox Church, a natural way to approach and communicate with God. This constant avocation bore plenty of fruits, Saint Nectarios being the author of four original volumes of religious poetry, standing out in the atmosphere of the ecclesiastical life at the beginning of the last century in opposition to his seemingly prosaic life constantly temptated and bound to marginally survive. The question of whether St. Nektarios “was a hymnographer or a hymnologist” remains open, each encounter with his texts only revealing new semantic, musical and spiritual riches. Above all, the belief remains that the Metropolitan of Pentapole was a real “artist of God, a deified versifier, a soul who brought to an image in verses the sighs from the bottom of his heart”

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30 de ani la trecerea la cele veşnice şi 110 de ani de la naşterea Preasfinţitului Vasile Coman al Oradiei

Author(s): Ioan Petru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09/2022

The article presents the biographical course of Bishop Vasile Coman of Oradea, since whose death30 years have passed, and 110 years since his birth. He distinguished himself as a teacher, priest, dean and bishop, in all these services doing honor to the Church.

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Aspecte ale rugăciunii în tradiţia filocalică

Author(s): Sorin Cosma / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2022

The article presents some aspects of the prayer as the philocalic Fathers’ way of life, transmitted to posterity as models of spiritual living in the spirit of Christ’s Gospel and of the eternal tradition of the Christian East. As viewed by the philocalic Fathers, prayer is like a breath of the Spirit, it is also a gift from God and a spiritual personal effort, it fights against the scattering of thoughts, seeks a pure heart and is a fulfillment for man.

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Indisolubilitatea căsătoriei şi divorţul din perspectiva misiunii spirituale a Bisericii

Author(s): Sorin Cosma / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2022

In the current conditions of secularism and desacralization, biologizing morals succeed in promoting the power of hedonistically oriented human instincts, separated from the Court of conscience; a fact that results in an unprecedented proliferation of divorces, as well as the tendency to dissolve the traditional family. Hence, the need to plead in favor of saving the marriage, the family and implicitly the ethnic identity by promoting the Christian teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. Thus, based on the Holy Scriptures, the apostolic tradition, the teaching of the Holy Fathers and the church legislation, it is specified that the indissolubility of marriage enters into the divine order of life, intended to ensure the unity of the family which represents the basic cell of society, with the purpose of procreation and communion of spouses helping and supporting each other as well as abstinence from fornication. Even if the divorce was accepted only in the case of adultery, the indissolubility of the marriage has priority, so that family unity can be restored through the repentance of the wrongdoer and the forgiveness of the injured spouse. Raising the sacrament of marriage to the level of unity between Christ and the Church, although a second marriage was accepted in case of the death of one of the spouses, still the widowhood was recommended... The Church did not reject the second marriage, considering the weaknesses of human nature which “carries within itself the wounds of sin”; but the reservations about the third marriage were maintained... In order to support the indissolubility of marriage and to combat divorce, the mission of the Church will be focused on the education that should be given to young people who wish to marry, following the apostolic exhortation to seek to renounce all form of selfishness, showing mutual goodwill and trust, both in the joys and in the difficulties inherent in family life, always letting love and conjugal communion triumph.

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Arhiepiscopul Teofil Herineanu la 30 de ani de la trecerea la cele veşnice – arhiereul şi omul –

Author(s): Iustin Tira / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2022

The present text is an evocation of Archbishop Teofil Herineanu of Cluj, since whose death 30 years have passed this year. The one commemorated is evoked as a bishop, or a servant of the Church, and as a man. As a bishop, he always had an admiration for his predecessors and a special reverence for the Holy Liturgy. He was a modest and humble servant. As a person, he had a sensitive and emotional nature. He knew others well and valued people.

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„Dacă tinereţea ar şti şi dacă bătrâneţea ar putea”. Pastorală la Naşterea Domnului – 2022

Author(s): Andrei Andreicuţ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2023

The celebration of the Nativity of the Lord is accompanied by traditions that our people preserved since the times of our ancestors, by spiritual and material joys, by the presents we offer to our loved ones and, above all, by the Christmas Day Liturgy. Unfortunately, for many, these traditions no longer mean anything. The holy childhood of old days is gone. In the context of this situation, we fondly remember the word oftenly used by Father Arsenie Papacioc: “if youth knew, if age could”. Many young people are no longer interested in participating in the Holy Liturgy, singing carols and observing Christmas traditions, because they do not know their meaning. And many of the elderly can no longer fast, can no longer do acts of charity, can no longer visit the sick and come to the Holy Liturgy with difficulty. The solution to the situation? Let the young be catechized by the old, and let the old be supported in their spiritual and philanthropic pursuits by the young.

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Sfântul Agriciu de Trier, important episcop în Gallia Belgica în timpul Sfântului Împărat Constantin cel Mare

Author(s): Alexandru Nan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2023

The lists of the bishops of Trier mention Agricius as the 4th bishop of this city after Eucharius, Valerius and Maternus. Bishop Agriciu was of particular importance in the history of early Christianity in Gallia Belgica, as he participated in the synod of Arles in the year 314 and, based on his participation, the periods when his predecessors carried out their activity can be calculated. Under Agaricius, the construction of the first cathedral in Trier began, and the relics of St. Matthew and the Shroud of Christ were brought to this city. He is celebrated by Orthodox and Catholics on every January 19.

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Despre Părintele arhimandrit Placide Deseille, la cinci ani de la mutarea sa la Domnul

Author(s): Felicia Dumas / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2023

The present article evokes Father Archimandrite Placide Deseille, five years after his passing away. Grafted on the trunk of the Athonite spirituality, Father Archimandrite Placide Deseille transplanted the Holy Mountain to Western France, like other contemporary aghiorite monks, founders of monastic life in the West, such as Venerable Sophronius of Essex in England, or Elder Ephraim from Philotheou in Arizona. The French Archimandrite Placide Deseille was a disciple of the abbot Aimilianos of Simonopetra, with whose blessing he returned to France after his conversion to monasticism, to found there the Athonite metochi of the Simonos Petra lavra, giving a good and holy start to Orthodox monasticism in the Hexagon. He was loved and respected for the holiness of his life not just by his disciples, but by all those who knew him, regardless of religion or nationality.

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Biografia Preacuviosului Părinte Petroniu Tănase, Stareţul Schitului Prodromu din Sfântul Munte Athos. Mărturii şi spicuiri din viaţa sa

Author(s): Acachie Irimiea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2023

The present article is an evocation of the Reverend Father Petroniu Tănase, Abbot of the Prodromos Skete in the Holy Mount Athos. In the first part of the article, the important stages of the biographical path of Father Petroniu are presented, and in the second part, some of the important features that make up his spiritual personality are highlighted.

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Recenzie la SERGHEI BULGAKOV, Prietenul Mirelui. Despre cinstirea ortodoxă a Înaintemergătorului, trad. Ioana Anca Bogdan, Editura Reîntregirea, Alba Iulia, 2015

Author(s): Traian Gheorghe Mocan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2023

Review of: SERGHEI BULGAKOV, Prietenul Mirelui. Despre cinstirea ortodoxă a Înaintemergătorului, trad. Ioana Anca Bogdan, Editura Reîntregirea, Alba Iulia, 2015

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Maica Semfora

Author(s): Dan Ciachir / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2023

This essay briefly reveals the history of Saint Mary Monastery of Techirghiol, evoking the Reverend Mother Semfora, abbess of the monastery. She achieved numerous beautiful things during her life in the Techirghiol monastic settlement, for which her personality remained deeply engraved on the hearts of those who knew her.

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Recenzie la DR. DACIAN BUT- CĂPUŞAN, Părintele Ioan Radu (1893-1973) şi parohiile cu filiile păstorite de el, Editura Episcopiei Sălajului „Credinţă şi viaţă în Hristos”, Zalău, 2021.

Author(s): Maxim (Iuliu-Marius) Morariu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2023

Review of: DR. DACIAN BUT- CĂPUŞAN, Părintele Ioan Radu (1893-1973) şi parohiile cu filiile păstorite de el, Editura Episcopiei Sălajului „Credinţă şi viaţă în Hristos”, Zalău, 2021.

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Polish view of the contemporary Orthodox Church Law – problems on the way to systematization

Author(s): Marek Ławreszuk,Piotr Makal / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2022

Orthodox Church law is comprised of elements that regulate the life of the Church at various levels. The theological decisions, oroses, canons and canonical letters, which concern the Church globally, obviously focus on doctrine. Still, they also characterize the theological aspects of ecclesiology, primarily expressed in the Orthodox Church’s fundamental confession of faith – the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. Although a number of the canons of the ecumenical councils and of the Holy Fathers, historical and contemporary resolutions passed by various local Orthodox Churches and other ecclesiastical authorities and institutions pertain to the universal sphere in many aspects, the vast majority of them set specific organizational standards of church life in the local perspective: the local Church, basic administrative units (dioceses, metropolises or exarchates), but above all in basic organizational structures, which include parishes and monasteries.

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Nauczyciele Akademii Ostrogskiej

Author(s): Antoni Mironowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2023

The teachers at the Ostroh Academy were highly qualified people, figures involved in the life of the Orthodox Church in the Great Duchy of Lithuania and Poland. All of them were known not only inOstroh. Their knowledge and activity in the public forum were used by the Ruthenian nobility at assemblies,by the magnates in educating their children, and by the Orthodox hierarchy in defense of the rights of theirChurch. The diverse composition of lecturers in terms of nationality and religion in Ostroh contributed toraising the prestige of the university. The students could not only acquire solid theological knowledge, butalso learn about the situation of the Orthodox Church in other countries, especially in the Ottoman Empire.The shortcoming of the teaching staff was its instability.

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Ile publikacji wydała warszawska Drukarnia Synodalna? (Wstępny przegląd wydań 1923–1939)

Author(s): Ivan Nikulin / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2023

On the basis of published sources (magazines and publications) and the research of specialists, the author reviews the main directions of the publishing activity of Synodal Printing House, the mainpublishing body of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Preliminary calculations show that over2,500 publications (with periodicals) were published in the Printing House in the years 1923–1939.

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Nomokanones as a Forgotten Source for Liturgics: A Case Study of the Nomokanon Manuscript GR 14 (17th c.) of the Grabovac Serbian Orthodox Monastery (Hungary)

Author(s): Srboljub Ubiparipović / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2023

In this paper we present and analyze some selected liturgical rubrics from the Mount Athos and two titles of the two last chapters of the very important manuscript Nomokanon GR 14 (17th c.) of theSerbian Orthodox Monastery Grabovac (Hungary). These rubrics and also titles of the two last chapters,which we have found in already-mentioned manuscript, were being formed by translation from Greek intoChurch Slavonic language of the Serbian redaction. Selected liturgical rubrics were being translated fromthe relevant parts of Athonite Typicon and Canon Law Tradition, and two titles of the two last chapters ofNomocanon GR 14 from a work of Gabriel Seviros, Metropolitan of Philadelphia (c. 1540–1616). We havealso explained the main theological motives for such a translation and redaction of these texts.

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Modele de organizare a activității de educație fizică în școala românească; în secolul al XIX-lea

Author(s): Cristian Ștefan Liuşnea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2023

In the present work, we proposed to deepen, based on sources, the information regarding the approach of some personalities regarding the organization and management of physical education activities, especially in the school environment, in the second half of the 19th century, starting from the context of previous contributions. Among them, we should mention Gheorghe Moceanu, the Transylvanian whom V. A. Urechia will pinch him and help him move to the Kingdom, where he became an active militant for the introduction of physical education in schools, following the model of the German gymnastics system, Dimitrie Ionescu, the gymnastics teacher at the “Gheorghe Lazăr” High School in Bucharest, a member of the commission that will establish the first official state program: “The general and analytical program of gymnastics instruction in primary and normal schools of both sexes” and, last but not least, Spiru Haret, who, as Minister of Public Instruction, reorganized the entire system of education, paying great attention to establishing the program and improving the content of teaching gymnastics.

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