Milostenia și alte forme de manifestare ale iubirii creștine în Biserica preniceeană
Charity and other forms of manifestation of Christian love in the Pre-Nicene Church

Summary/Abstract: The first three centuries of the Christian Church are the period in which the numerical growth, the geographical expansion and the impact of Christ’s Church, were extraordinary. Given the more than precarious conditions and the obstacles that stood against the development of the Church, we can state that surely this has been the golden age of Christianity. The protagonists of pre-Nicaean mission (our Savior Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles and apostolic disciples, church hierarchy and common Christians) carried out a plenary assumed mission even though, for most of them, realizing that they were indeed missionaries didn’t stand as a major priority. They practiced their faith by doing charity, giving aid to orphans and widows, by giving hope and spiritual assistance to prisoners, by organizing collects and above all by attending to the Holly Liturgy, followed by the so called „love feasts”.

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