Rugăciunea în Biserica Ortodoxă. Între tradiție și înnoire
Prayer in the Orthodox Church. Between Tradition and Renewal

Summary/Abstract: In the “Homage Year of Prayer in the Life of the Church and Christians” and the “Commemorative Year of the Hesychast Saints Simeon the New Theologian, Saint Gregory Palama and Saint Paisios of Neamț” we proposed a study on the practice of prayer in the Orthodox Church, at a time when we find, that there is a restoration of patristic thought, an updating of Tradition in modernity, serving a living, charismatic, historical and eschatological Theology.In our study we will dwell on the model of prayer to the saints which add to the patristic tradition their own mystical experience. This, says Father Dumitru Stăniloae, emphasizes feeling, conscience, light and love, insisting on the divine light, on its uniqueness that multiplies according to the gifts that share them like the love of the Trinity.And last but not least, we will refer to our hierarchs, from His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of The Romanian Orthodox Church, to His Eminence Casian, Archbishop of the Lower Danube, who in turn propose to update the spiritual exercise along the lines of the Holy Fathers, thus emphasizing the dynamic aspect of the Holy Tradition. They promoted the patristic model of theologizing, insisting on communion, on Church Prayer, starting from the idea that the Good is known in the dialogue of love with the other, even if during the Pandemic, communion could be achieved only electronically. No one was left alone, as the idea that “only he who is saved is saved” (Matthew 20:19), the service coming from love, which made it possible to cure diseases, cleanse lepers, feed the hungry, help in all helplessness, all without payment (Matthew X: 8). And here we remember the prayer of the Archbishop of the Lower Danube, from the work “Ozone” from the “lung” of eternity: “Come, Lord, and give us light in thought and in word! Stay with us, because the day is gone! Make us free in the Light!”.At the same time, communion is in the Church, as is Prayer, for the “air in“ the lungs of the Church, through which we breathe in the Lord and move toward one another, comes from the “air of prayers”.

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