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Our Orthodox sacramental theology is based, from the beginning, on the belief that God can and expressly wants to work on creatures in visible forms, through matter and not just through the invisible spiritual dimension. God's work is always manifested completely, that is, twice: materially and spiritually at the same time. Christ, the source and perpetrator of the Mysteries, is and remains forever God and man, absolute spirit and transfigured matter. He always works and communicates with His whole person, He cannot be divided. No act, no work of His on man can be purely spiritual; this division is a simple theory, an abstraction that does not happen in reality. The sacramental Orthodox teaching is therefore based on the conception of the unity, connection, communication and creative intimacy of the creature with the Creator.
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The name of Mother of God - Theotokos is not only an appellation, a way of addressing the Blessed Virgin of the tribe of David, but it is a continuous affirmation that the Blessed Virgin gave birth to God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity become God-Man. By a decision of Pope Pius IX, Catholicism is endowed with a new dogma, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, a dogma completely foreign to the Eastern Church. Through this dogma received by Catholicism in 1854, the Virgin Mary would have been protected from original sin from her conception (from the parents of Joachim and Anna), due to those special worth of Jesus Christ.
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Given that the entire Orthodox cult represents the updating of the soteriological work of the Savior Christ, and the Holy Liturgy is the quintessential framework for the manifestation of this reality, this paper aims to bring to atention some of the theological arguments that confirm for us all that Jesus Christ is in the centre of the Eucharistic. At the same time, looking at the immediate claim that the present manifests regarding the administration of Holy Communion, some of the practical aspects that each minister of the Church is obliged to take into account in his pastoral work are highlighted.
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„Church and nationality. Case study: the Romanian Orthodox in Hungary and the Athonite area”. This study submits to the reader an analysis of two cases: the denationalisation of the Romanians in Hungary, and the relation between Romanian ethnics with the different ethnic groups on Mount Athos. We believe that by reading the material the reader will understand the similarity between the two cases.
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This article sheds light on the patterns of filling pastoral positions in the Latvian-language area of Livland province, i.e. the Vidzeme rural parishes. Above all, attention is given to the education background of the pastors who imparted biographical information in the published church archives and how their path to become a pastor progressed. Secondly, the problem of pastors’ self-image is examined. Thirdly, an attempt is made to find out whether the church materials deposited in the general framework of the Swedish Church Law of 1686 may reflect the intellectual impulses received by pastors from German universities. The focus is on whether the increased interest in the state of the physical environment, above all weather, as one of the manifestations of the enlightened worldview, is reflected in church chronicles.
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During time, Ienopolis (today – Ineu, Arad County) gave a lot of proeminent figures of national and european history. In 1620 Sava Brancovici was born in Ineu. His family, originating from Serbia, arrived in Ineu in 15th century. Sava Brancovici was a charismatic leader of his time. He traveled a lot in South-Eastern Europe, he knew Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Latin languages. He became the Mitropolit of Transylvania between 1656- 1680, in a hard period of religious conflicts for hegemony. In the same time, he was also a diplomat, who understood wery well the international relations and the statu-quo among the Habsburg, Russian and Turkish Empires. He was declared a saint in 1955 being comemorated in 24th of April. In 2020 there are 400 years from his birth, a moment to remember about the significance of his life.
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In recent weeks and months, a word often uttered by the inhabitants of the entire planet is: Corona, the Corona virus. There are few, however, who know that there was indeed a saint by this name, invoked even in cases of epidemic (molime), mentioned in the Orthodox calendar on November 11, when we celebrate two other, more well-known saints: St. Mina and Theodore the Student. In the Catholic Church of St. Corona is mentioned on May 14, and in Armenians on November 10.
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