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SLUJIREA PREOȚEASCĂ ÎN TRECUT ȘI ASTĂZI (II)
PRIESTLY MINISTRATION IN THE PAST AND TODAY (2)

Author(s): Alin-Ionel Ibănescu
Subject(s): Pastoral Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: priestly; ministration; preach; dignitary;

Summary/Abstract: The priest, God’s holy man, is called upon to bless the word, opening a path to true faith and to never-ending happiness, and in order for them to teach the people how it may discover the secrets of spiritual life, they must, by their walk and their threading, act similarly to the Messiah, similar to His wonderful threading, on such troubled waters of this sea. By the power of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, they are the Church’s servant, they are the greatest dignitary on this Earth, with the greatest power, the power to teach, to guide and to bind and unbind people, and thus, to guide them on the path to salvation. The priest does not carry out their own doing, but the doing of Christ, with the power given by Christ. They do not preach on their own behalf, they do not serve their own purposes, nor do they comprehend man with their own thoughts, but all such is carried out in the name of the One who had chosen and sent him, the Lord Jesus.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2020
  • Issue No: 01-03
  • Page Range: 86-108
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Romanian