LORD’S ARMY – AN ASSOCIATION CONFESSING AND SACRIFICING FOR THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
LORD’S ARMY – AN ASSOCIATION CONFESSING AND SACRIFICING FOR THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Author(s): Mihai Liviu MariciSubject(s): Cultural history, History of Church(es), History of ideas, Systematic Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: spiritual volunteering; lay apostolate; brotherhood;
Summary/Abstract: As a movement of spiritual rebirth within the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Army of the Lord had its beginning on January 1, 1923, through the initiative of the Orthodox priest Iosif Trifa from Sibiu, who published a Call in the name of Jesus Christ, through the leaflet of the Metropolitanate of Sibiu, Lumina satelor, (Village light) whose editor he was, addressed to the readers and to all Christians, to a Decision of change of life, this being considered the moment inspired to the initiator by the Holy Spirit as the beginning of the movement. It was outlawed by the communist regime in 1948, continuing its activity underground for more than 40 years until 1990, when it was legally rehabilitated as a religious association within the Romanian Orthodox Church with its headquarters in Sibiu and has been active since 28 September 1990 with the blessing of the Holy Synod of the R.O.C., which also approved its Statute.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 35
- Page Range: 812-821
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Romanian