The monastic garments reminding the death and the judgment of God Cover Image

Ținuta monahală — aducătoare-aminte de moarte și de judecata lui Dumnezeu
The monastic garments reminding the death and the judgment of God

Author(s): Arhim Ioan Harpa
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: monastic vestments; consecration as monk; death; monastic life

Summary/Abstract: The Social-Cultural Center „Saint Paisius” of Neamt Monastery hosted on 14 and 15 November 2015 the monastic Synaxis of monks and nuns from the Archdiocese of Iaşi. This monastic meeting coincided this year with the feast of Saint Paisius Velichykovsky from Neamt and had as main theme „The thought of death”. In this paper, the author shows that the monk begins his spiritual struggle for the mortification of all kinds of appetites and passions when he begins to die for the world, when he decides to abandon his name and the worldly clothes they had until the liturgical ceremony of consecration as monk.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 05+08
  • Page Range: 72-76
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian