Rosyjska misja prawosławna w Japonii w czasach arcybiskupa Nikołaja (Kasatkina)

Author(s): Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

Missionary endeavours of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 19th century went far beyond the frontiers of the Russian Empire. It reached even Japan, especially once the country abandoned its policy of isolationism, the sakoku. The foundations were laid by archbishop Nicholas Kasatkin and his assistant, later the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus, Siergius Starogordsky. The organisational structure of the church built by the Russian missionaries survived till this day. The essay examines the needs, expectations and development of the orthodox communities in Japan and the methods used by those two missionaries in their work. The largest part of the essay is devoted to the analysis of their preaching and leadership skills.

Nad latinsko-cirkevnoslovanským glosárom k Bazilovičovmu liturgickému dielu

Author(s): Mária Strýčková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 01/2017

In this paper we attempt to point out the relation between two liturgical traditions and their languages – Latin and Church Slavic. These languages integrated confessional diversity of the national community and played a crucial role in identifying Latin and Byzantine-Slavic tradition and culture under the Carpathians. Such relation can be well observed in literary sources, written in parallel Latin-Church Slavic. The role of such texts will be examined on the bilingual liturgical work Tolkovanije Svjaščennija Liturgii Novaho Zakona istinnija Bezkrovnija Žertvy/ Explicatio Sacrae Liturgiae Novae Legis veri Incruenti Sacrificii from 1815 by Juraj Joannikij Bazilovič, an Eastern Basilian monk, graduate of Latin schools and professor of theology and philosophy of Eastern clergy.

ELEMENTE MISIOLOGICE ÎN PRESA BISERICEASCĂ DIN BANATUL ISTORIC, LA ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI XX (II)

Author(s): Bogdan Neaga / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2017

Banat was a contact bridge between the Central Europe civilisation and South-East, developed over the centuries its own specific with distinct ethnical, cultural and spiritual particularities. During the 1716-1718 war, Banat was occupied by the Austrian army and acknowledged as imperial province by the Passarowitz peace treaty (1718). Timisoara pashalic was abolished. Incorporated in the Habsburg Empire, Banat held a particular position at the joint of peripheral Europe, newly acquired on the continent, with classical Europe, between the East-Balkan space and the West-Central European one, gravitating towards the South area, within the permanent oscillation of Europe between North and South.

PATRIARHUL JUSTINIAN- APĂRĂTOR AL ORTODOXIEI

Author(s): Constantin Cilibia / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2017

The history of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the communist - atheist regime was marked by the personality of the Patriarch Justinian, because he had one of the longest and hardest pastorate, bearing with a lot of bravery in the patriarch chair for almost three decades (24 May 1948 – 26 March 1977). This year we commemorate 40 years from his passing to the eternity.

REFLECȚII DOGMATICE (I)

Author(s): Daniil Stoienescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2017

The contemporary Orthodox Theology is altogether and at the same time, Path, Truth and Life (cf. Ioan 14, 6) for today’s world. The contemporary Orthodox Theology “yesterday, today and forever, is the same” (cf. Evrei 13, 8). The contemporary Orthodox Theology is, and especially should be equally prophetical, apostolic, patristic and eschatological, fulfilling its ecclesiological, sacramental and philocalic dimension.

Patriarcha odchodzi

Author(s): Bogumiła Berdychowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 669/2017

Поетика литургијског певања између усмене и писане традиције

Author(s): Dragan Ašković,Zoran Ranković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 157-158/2016

In this work the authors explain the relevant terms from the Old Testament, biblical tradition and the Scripture, as well as from liturgical songs and prayers, which refer to liturgical music – chanting. On the basis of the translations from Hebrew into Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic, their original meaning is identified, and some new or possible discrepancies, created in the process of translation, or new meanings are pointed out. In this way, the role and meaning of the Christian liturgical poetics are stressed as well as its inseparable connection with the church chanting. Namely, liturgical chanting is a prayer, “the theology of sound”, and that means that the word is more important than the music – although it is more complete with the music, and music is to follow and show the meaning of words, and to help their adoption.

VIAȚA - DARUL LUI DUMNEZEU

Author(s): Ioan Selejan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

Life is the gift offered to man by God, upon creation, and God is the origin of life. Life is a river that springs from God. So far, no one was able to quantify the value of human life. The measuring unit for life is the love of God. Thee who feeds on love shall not parish. Life itself has only God. The Son of God, having become, by embodiment, the Son of Man, has life in Itself, for He is „Life” (John. 14, 6), They are the Giver of Life and the „Beginner of Life” (Facts 3, 15). Christ gives life by raising those that had died from the dead: Jairus’ daughter, the son of the widow from Nain and Lazarus. The earthly life of man, lived through Christ, is nothing more than the preparation and beginning of the afterlife. Physical death is merely a passage from the earthly life to the afterlife. Life may not be killed, only sometimes restricted. People die, even children die, but life does not die.

UN DECENIU DE SLUJIRE PATRIARHALĂ. INTERVIU CU PREAFERICITUL PĂRINTE PATRIARH DANIEL

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

On the 10th anniversary of the patriarchate, the Blessed Father Daniel agreed to offer an interview for the magazine called The Herald of Orthodoxy. Within this interview, the patriarch was asked to present the main blessings received from God within the last decade, but also the obstacles encountered during their undertakings. In response, the Patriarch Daniel expresses their joy for the brotherly cooperation of several persons and underlines the fact that the unpredictable tests they had to overcome served for enhancing spiritual maturity and belief.

ALEGEREA ŞI INSTALAREA PREASFINŢITULUI PĂRINTE DR. EMILIAN CRIŞANUL ÎN FUNCȚIA DE EPISCOP-VICAR AL ARHIEPISCOPIEI ARADULUI

Author(s): Iustin Popovici,Marius Mircia / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

On July 4 2017, in the Synodic Hall of the Patriarchal Residence, under the presidency of the All-Holy Patriarch Father Daniel, the work session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church took place. This session entailed the election of the Bishop-Minister for the Archbishopric of Suceava and the Rădăuți and the Bishop-Minister for the Archbishopric of Arad. The Holy Synod elected, by secret vote, his Grace, the Bishop-Minister Emilian Lovișteanul as Bishop-Minister for the Archbishopric of Arad, with 43 out of 46 votes validly expressed votes. The new Bishop-Minister will be named his Grace, Father Emilian Crișanul.

HOW CAN MONASTIC LIFE TO HELP THE RENEWAL OF THE CHURCH? AN ORTHODOX POINT OF VIEW

Author(s): Marius Florescu / Language(s): English Issue: 07-09/2017

În contextul împlinirii a 500 de ani de la Reforma protestantă, la Castel Ring - Selbitz, Germania, s-a organizat la sfârşitul lunii august 2017, un congres dedicat vieţii consacrate. În cadrul acestuia, participanţi din mai multe Biserici şi confesiuni istorice creştine au discutat pe marginea temei: Cum poate monahismul să contribuie la înnoirea vieţii bisericeşti?

REDESCOPERIREA MISTERULUI BAPTISMAL

Author(s): Adrian Covan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

The spiritual life springs from the depths of baptismal water, illumined by the uncreated energies of the Trnitarian Ghost. Therefore, the christian baptism becomes the foundation of the new ontological status of the human been, reborn from the water and Ghost. The christianization act not designates just the gate of the Church, but especially the crucial moments of the Holy Ghost`s descent upon us, stage that register our adoption into God, in accordance with the model of Christ, crucified and resurected. To live in Christ represents the major purpose of our living, purpose with, ultimately, designs the human been towards the participation of infinite glory of God.

PROGRAMUL ICONOGRAFIC AL MĂNĂSTIRII SĂRACA (I)

Author(s): Marian Pirvu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

We are in the reverential year of 2017, when our Church cherishes the church icon painters. On this occasion, when our eparchy is also at a time of celebration, in the following lines, I will try to set forth a complete presentation of the iconographic schedule of the wall church within the Săraca Monastery (13th century), a monument which is emblematic for our eparchy, from an iconographic and cultural perspective. The presentation herein shall be divided into two parts so as to be able to embed the full iconographic schedule.

PREOȚI ORTODOCȘI CĂRĂȘENI ÎN ÎNCHISORILE COMUNISTE

Author(s): Constantin Cilibia / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

The coming to power of communism, after World War 2, meant, for the Romanian Orthodox Church and its servants, a true nightmare. Almost half a century went by since they died or disappeared in communist prisons. Many of them were secretly buried in tombs unfamiliar to anyone, in common burial grounds, without any crosses present. Throughout the ordeal they were about to suffer, they were mocked and humiliated to the point of dehumanization, forced to eat with just a single spoon, subjected to other hardships, all for the purpose of denigrating the ancient Church and its servants. Due to the inhuman conditions they were subjected to, the tens of Church servants died after being liberated due to the suffering endured in prison and following the tortures they were subjected to.

SFINȚITUL LOCAȘ DE CULT, ÎN OPERA MĂRTURISITORULUI TRAIAN DORZ, ÎN PERIOADA PERSECUȚIEI COMUNISMULUI ATEU

Author(s): Vasile Nica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

We are thus passing through the celebratory year dedicate to confessors who, throughout the time of hardship of the previous century, have suffered in communist prison cells. The multiple nuances of this phenomenon, as well as the large number of those having confessed show that this research has yet to reach an end and that it must be continued with utter care, responsibility and veneration. Each of the confessors followed their own path that, in order to be highlighted and known, requires a particular research undertaken by true judgment and without any prejudice. One of these confessors was Traian Dorz, who went on to suffer in communist prisons for 17 years, during which time he remained faithful and adamant to their Christian and Orthodox convictions. Anyone reading their autobiography, which describes the route of their confession, can only be deeply marked by the strength and faith in Christ shown by the confessor.

PREZENTĂRI BIBLIOGRAFICE

Author(s): Sorin Cosma,Vasile Muntean,Daniel Lemeni,Ioan Dumitru Popoiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2017

VALOAREA TERAPEUTICĂ A CUVÂNTULUI

Author(s): Marius Ioana / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 22/2016

The word can be both therapeutic and destructive. The word has a promethean power and represents the cheapest and the safest medicine. Therapy with words can only be achieved if one takes into consideration that man is a religious being and that deep psychotherapy can be performed by means of the spiritual dimension. Verbum medicus becomes verbum resurrectionis

TRECEREA LA VIAŢA VEŞNICĂ ŞI DESPĂRŢIREA SUFLETULUI DE TRUP ÎN GÂNDIREA IMNOLOGILOR

Author(s): Cosmin Santi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 22/2016

Immediately after death, the soul plunges into a light at the same time tender and lucid, allowing the soul to see his life again, to understand its innermost depths. It is that sensation of both wellness and pain that you experience every time a spiritually brilliant being is scrutinzing your soul, easily penetrating the ugliness of your character. This purifying sleep is not at all a state of unconsciousness. Death sets the person free from this leather costume in which we were enfolded the moment we went out of the paradisiac condition and by means of which we have been directed from transparent participation toward the universe. The shape, the faculties, the senses of the body, aspired by the infinite, become interiorized and it is no longer the soul inside the body, but the body inside the soul. The senses that have become spiritualized, the perfect memory permit true personal meetings, not just between the dead, but also between the dead and the living. The place of these encounters can only be Christ, this center toward Whom all the lines converge, Christ in Whom we are all one another’s limbs. The prayer of the Church facilitates and accompanies the exode of the soul

RUGĂCIUNEA ŞI MILOSTENIA ÎN (RE)MODELAREA FAMILIEI CREŞTINE

Author(s): Gavril Trifa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

The prayer and the facts of faith in (re) modeling the Christian family. One of the most frequent questions that arise in the educational area both in schools and mass media is related to the role of the education within family in the process of forming the new generations of students. The present paper starts from one of the fundamental factors of the education within family, namely the formative value of prayer. It presents the ideal image of the family, founded on the divine commandments and blessed by the Savior, as the one in Cana Galilee. Because the family is, theologically speaking, a space of Christian perfection, the role of prayer is to support the continuous process of modeling and remodeling of the person, including the relationships between family members, through a continuous personal effort sustained by the work of the divine grace.

ICONOGRAFIA PRAZNICULUI ÎNVIERII DOMNULUI

Author(s): Vasile Itineanţ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

In Orthodox tradition, the most central event in the Gospels - The Resurrection of Christ - is usually not depicted. In other words, this ineffable moment is not accessible to human comprehension. Normally Orthodox iconography called “Christ’s Resurrection” depict Christ’s descent into hell, or Christ’s appearance after the Resurrection. In this paper, we will try to understand the nature of the icon, and in this sense, we will examine the representations of Christ’ Resurrection in the Orthodox iconography.