Le Saint Mystere de l’Ordination, couronne des Saints Mystères de l’Eglise

Author(s): Cosmin Santi / Language(s): French Issue: 03/2016

Saving work of Jesus Christ was committed to the "fullness of time" in a certain moment of history through the incarnation, teaching, life, sacrifice and resurrection from the dead. But the appropriation of salvation is normal and safe in the Church and through the Church. The church is our life in Christ and therefore our salvation and sanctification body. The Ecclesiology is closely related to soteriology and Christology, since the Church is the reality session, the focus and specifies all teaching and Christian life. Sacramental priesthood is exercised really only in the Church and for the Church, and therefore ordinations are done always only in the Church in the Holy Shrine around the Holy Table.

PĂRINTELE VASILE ȘI „CARTEA” VIEȚII

Author(s): Nicolae Morar / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

DIMENSIUNEA TRIADOCENTRICĂ A ECLEZIOLOGIEI ORTODOXE

Author(s): Adrian Covan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

Conjugating the Godhead persons communion life ensemble, the Church is an icon of Trinitarian relations, continuing the salvation opera of Its founder, Jesus Christ, essence and finality of personal relation between God and man. Christian life is anchored in Christ and the Holy Spirit, for only in Christ and through the Holy Spirit we can meet and know our Father. Therefore, life in Christ or the spiritual life is nothing but a direct participation at Trinitarian life. The door to this life is opened only by Baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity and we cannot partake of its fullness but through the grace of saints marking their presence in the Church.

UN MĂRTURISITOR ȘI LUPTĂTOR PENTRU UNITATEA DE CREDINȚĂ ȘI DE NEAM, PĂRINTELE DIMITRIE BEJAN

Author(s): Daniel Enea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

The 20th century reopened the martyrdom. All the signs of this age claim holiness. It should be noted that there were thousands of people who were sanctified in this century of darkness. . They were helped by God to survive to testify in favor of the Truth. Now these holy people mobilize us for an authentic Christian experience through their way of life, living after Christ. Their lives reveal the authentic Christian values and then they were guiding. And this life, which has much in common with that of the saints, is worthwhile to follow. And the life of Father Dimitrie Bejan is a testimony and a confession with the double experience of detention both in the Soviet Union and especially in Romania. A sacred ministry, a confessor, but also a true fighter for the unity of the faith and the nation he was part of, will remain for centuries.

Propoved kao konstitutivni deo svete liturgije

Author(s): Miloš V. Marinković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2017

The paper addresses the question of liturgical preaching: its place, purpose and goal. A liturgical homily as the Good News of the Kingdom of God. Reading the Gospel and preaching after the reading is a liturgical act in the Orthodox Church, an inseparable part of the Holy Secret. The author also presents general rhetorical rules of importance for the sermon. The paper deals with the problems of moving a sermon to other parts of the Liturgy and its separation from the reading of the Gospel. Attention was also paid to the very preparation of sermons as well as the practical issues related to the preaching of a sermon. The paper aims to affirm preaching as the end of the didactic part of the liturgy, and to emphasize its importance to both the people and the clergy.

The Value of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Preservation of the National Religious Rights оf the Ukrainians: 60s–70s of the 20th Century

Author(s): Nadia Kindrachuk / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2017

In the article we studied the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an integral part, a national factor in the religious process of the Ukrainians, living in western regions of the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s. The research gave a comprehensive analysis of the place and role of the church in nation-building and preservation of ethnic and national identity of the titular representatives of the Ukraine’s nation during the Soviet anti-religious campaign. We described the activities of the Greek Catholic clergy, whose aim was the consolidation of national-patriotic forces and the formation of religious opposition among the Ukrainians. The article also outlined the policy vectors of the atheistic communist ruling elite and revealed their essence, covered violent reorientation of Greek Catholics to Orthodoxy. In terms of religious oppression and persecution, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church continued its development of underground and become a consolidating factor in Western Ukrainian struggle for their national and religious rights. It has become an important factor in ethnicity creation and a spiritual and cultural self of the Ukrainian people.

РОЛЬ ЦЕРКВИ У ВОЛИНСЬКОМУ ДИСКУРСІ

Author(s): Kalishchuk Oksana / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 3/2017

The article is devoted to the position and role of the Church in the discussion of events in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, Kholmshchyna and Podlyashcha during the Second World War. From the beginning of the actualization of the Volyn events, the highest church leaders gave them, above all, a moral assessment. The article focuses on the role of John Paul II's message regarding the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation. It was emphasized that the formula of reconciliation, which was proposed from the beginning of active discussions, was proposed to Ukrainian and Polish societies by church leaders from the point of view of Christian morals. It is indicated on the complexity of inter-church dialogue in Volhynia events. Separately, the role of the Church in public initiatives aimed at Ukrainian-Polish reconciliation is shown.

PASTORALĂ LA NAȘTEREA DOMNULUI 2017

Author(s): Ioan Selejan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-12/2017

PASTORALĂ LA NAŞTEREA DOMNULUI 2017

Author(s): Timotei Seviciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-12/2017

PASTORALĂ LA NAŞTEREA DOMNULUI 2017

Author(s): Lucian Mic / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-12/2017

Најстарији српски преписи Пролошког житија Марије Египћанке

Author(s): Milka Radulović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 54/2017

The paper discusses Synaxarion vita of Saint Mary of Egypt according to earliest Ser bian copies in synaxarions. The texts of the three translations are compared between each other and also with the extensive Vita of Saint Mary of Egypt. In both simple prologue and prologue with verses the text about this saint is established on the duration of two opposite parts in her life and it points out the details existing in iconography, although one version ofsynaxarion with verses introduces an unfamilliar information about her burial.

Православната аскетика и женскиот ерос (низ призма на романот Облека на душаtа од Бошко Смаќоски)

Author(s): Milan Đorđević / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 16/2017

The of Perunica in the novel Cloathing of the Soul by Boško Smakjoski is enigmatic, not only for the traditional religios-moralistic, but also for the modern feminist and psychoanalytic interpretative position. The starting point of the following analysis is the claim that her impassibility is not asexual, but, on the contrary, essentially erotic. The sexuality of Perunica is fulfilled sexuality in its paradigmatic form. The filfilment of the erotic energy stays in the base of the Orthodox aestetic of the body. The “impassibility” of the orthodox iconography is not “impotent”, but is an expression of a perfectly actualized potency. In the discussion, we will concentrate on the analyse of the theological-philosophicel concepts ἔρος and ἀπαθία, at what we will turn to iconic examples from the Holy Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament interpreted in the terms of the Orthodox-ascetic exegetic tradition.

Around the Bloc: Holy Smoke! Bulgarian Church Embraces Macedonian Brethren

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 04/17/2018

Move echoes political reconciliation with a country many Bulgarians see as their little brother.

Софија – истина о предвечном логосу или прелесна скаска о „идеалној личности света”

Author(s): Zdravko Peno / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 164/2017

Sophia – the Wisdom of God – is an important theme in “Russian religious renaissance”, which encompassed many Russian intellectuals by the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century. Particularly important figure among them was Pavel Florensky, nicknamed “Russian Leonardo Da Vinci”, who was a priest of great erudition and expert in patristic theology. However, Pavel Florensky’s and other Russian thinkers’ efforts to develop the theme of Sophia in accordance to the Fathers of the Church does not mean that they were trying to find evidence for the existence of Sophia in patristic literature; they were actually trying to prove that this teaching had always existed in theological tradition. One might confidently claim that Florensky’s theology of Sophia was not an essential contribution to Christian faith and theology. Florensky’s distancing from patristic Christology and his emphasizing of the idea of sophianity in iconology produced an incorrect definition of Christian identity among the sympathizers of this teaching. In the very essence of sophianism there is the idea of sophianity that, when combined with the idea of absolute unity, transforms into pluripotent pansophianism. According to George Florovsky, this approach was an esthetic temptation for Russian theology. The idea of sophianity was also criticized by Saint John of Shanghai, Florensky’s contemporary, who claimed that, for sophianists, Theotokos and Saint John the Baptist, depicted in deesis of the Church of Sophia in Novgorod, were almost as necessary for the salvation of mankind as was the Son of God. Theotokos and John the Baptist are followed by the remainder of humanity, and all of them, “according to the measure of their own sophianity”, occupy corresponding places in the “ideal person of humanity”. For sophianists, accomplishing unity with God means accomplishing identity of sophianity, and not accomplishing theosis in real unity with Christ in the Eucharist.

Wiktor Rowdo – życie i działalność artystyczna

Author(s): Maryia Yanushkevich / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2013

Wiktor Rowdo (23.11.1921, Smorgonie – 18.11.2007, Mińsk) był synem prawosławnego księdza, dyrygentem Chóru Radia i Telewizji Białorusi, profesorem Białoruskiej Państwowej Akademii Muzyki, Narodowym Artystą Białorusi, laureatem państwowych nagród, licznych wyróżnień, przyznawanych przez Cerkiew prawosławną i Kościół katolicki. W swoim życiu artystycznym wielokrotnie zdobywał główne nagrody na międzynarodowych konkursach chóralnych, otrzymał 6 wyróżnień Grand Prix z Chórem Radia i Chórem Akademii oraz nagrodę specjalną „Oscar” w Darmstadt (1997).

Oazy Ortodoksji

Author(s): Ignacy Kosmana / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2012

Ignacy Kosmana ̶ Jan Gajur, Oazy Ortodoksji, wyd. Arete II, Krosno 2011, ss. 240

PHENOMENON AND CONCEPT OF CANON: FROM CANONICAL FORM TO "CREATIVITY SPIRIT" IN CHRISTIANITY

Author(s): Svetlana Viktorivna Osadchaya / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The purpose of the research. The article analyzes the canon phenomenon and concept in a wide discursive field – from the consideration of canonical rules, canonical form to their realization in cantatory culture in general, and composer creativity in particular. Research methodology assumes the use of the following general scientific methods: typological – to identify key characteristics of the canonical phenomenon, philosophical and aesthetic, musicological analytical, historical and cultural methods. Along with these methods, in order to identify the conditions and structural and semantic aspects of the canon phenomenon, it is also necessary to use the systemic approach, which makes it possible to study comprehensively the object at various but interrelated levels. Scientific novelty consists in defining the canon phenomenon and concept as one of the leading cultural universals and key concepts of the Orthodox singing traditions and in Orthodox culture, in general. Conclusions. The evolution of Orthodox singing and the development of musical-liturgical style caused by it are initiated by the manifestation of the canon phenomenon, hence, the canonical phenomenon can be considered as a creative factor of this tradition, on the one hand, and as a necessary condition for the existence of liturgical-singing tradition, on the other hand. The Orthodox singing tradition acquires an autonomous music-style system as a unity of liturgical everyday and author musical and language installations.

APA ȘI DUHUL-COORDONATELE ÎNVEȘNICIRII OMULUI

Author(s): Rafael Povîrnaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01-03/2018

By his human condition, the man turns out to be an entity permanently under the pressure of the missing Paradise. This reality appears as the effect of our First Parents’ loss of communion, of their captivity in the “devil’s prison” resulted by their impiety towards God. The loss of Paradise proves to be an event which gives the human being not just the endless aspiration towards God’s lost grace, but at the same time, the new reality that turns people into the main target of the devil’s intentions as a common consequence of the fantasy of being like God. The Water and the Holy Spirit reconfigure the human being by remaking his relationship with God.

Вплив православної монастирської культури на становлення й розвиток іконопису

Author(s): Olga Olegivna Smolina / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2011

In several aspects – the genesis, style, symbolism, artistic language – we can talk about the leading role of the Orthodox monastery culture in the development of icon painting. It is the monastic culture gave to the icon the specifics which makes it a prayer.

Філософська парадигма сучасного православ’я: між традиціоналізмом і модернізмом

Author(s): Dimitro Viter / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 24/2010

In the article the tendencies orthodox philosophical paradigm developing in aspect of theoretical between traditionalism and modernism, and their influence on some aspects of the orthodox social doctrine are considered.