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Евхаристийната святост в анафората

Author(s): Ivan Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The Liturgical and Eucharistic witnesses of holiness prove the basic principles of the Christian worship of the Christian as a creative process as a mystical act of fellowship between man and God and emphasized both the faith and the knowledge that the believers should gain. The main problems with regard to the Eucharistic holiness in this study are addressed in the following points: establishment of eternal holiness – foundation of the Eucharist, God's holiness - manifestation in symbol and reality, angelic holiness in liturgy, confession of belief in Eucharistic practice as a mandatory condition for consecration, „Εὐχαριστήσωμεν τῷ Κυρίῳ“, the Eucharistic sacrament as an expression of God's holiness in transformation and consecration, the sanctifying power reflected in Byzantine liturgies, knowing the truth as a way of sanctification in God, faith and reason - one in the understanding of God's holiness.

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Кръщението и светостта

Author(s): Ivan Marinski / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

‘Holiness’ is one of the fundamental conceptions in the Christian doctrine. However, in contrast to the Western tradition, according to which holiness is confined solely to attaining moral perfection, the Orthodox tradition teaches that holiness is mainly an ontological category meaning internal transformation, a recovery of the primordial immortal nature, a return to the lost image and likeness of God – deification. For the Christian Eastern world, the basis of this recovery is the Incarnation– the act of Christ’s acquiring human nature. Through the Incarnation man is ‘created anew’, human nature is recovered and man is given back the purpose of his life again - his deification. For each human being the beginning of this new way of life starts with Baptism.

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Богослужебни елементи в апокрифа "Видение, което видя свети Исая Пророк, син Амосов"

Author(s): Valeri Tonchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This article aims to present the Bulgarian apocryphal text "The vision of Saint Isaiah the Prophet, son of Amoz" from a different perspective. The identification and systematization of the liturgical elements in this medieval Bulgarian apocryphal text unveil a different aspect of the Apocrypha, which contain elements of the liturgical tradition of both the early Christians and the worship that was evolving in the Middle Ages. The presence of liturgical texts sets the apocryphal literature as the bearer of the Holy Tradition of the Church, and by no meanssupports the claim that the Apocrypha represent only the thoughts and reflections of the author.In this context, apocryphal texts can be considered a basis for the study of the liturgical tradition and its evolution.The presentapocryphal text was being written over a long period of time, and containstraces of early-Christian worship and medieval traditions from the imperial liturgical tradition of Byzantium and Bulgaria.

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Семантика на мозаечните изображения в южния кораб на епископската базилика на Античния Пловдив

Author(s): Petar Grigorov Gramatikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Is it plausible hypothesis that the geometric ornaments of the first level of the polychrome mosaic resemble the Roman custom of proclaiming a ruler, empowering with imperial power, which symbolically happened by raising on a shield? The article is an attempt to explain the meaning of the symbols on the mosaics at the Episcopal basilica of ancient Philippopolis, a locus where some of the sessions of the semi-Arian council in 343 A.D. took place.

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Фрески апокалипсиса монастыря Дионисиат

Author(s): Igor Orlov / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

In this article the author considers a problem of iconographic reading and display through system of images (monastery frescos Dionisiat on Athos) the most mysterious book of the Holy Writ – Revelations of the Apostle John the Evangelist (Apocalypse).

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Фактор святости в дизайне

Author(s): Sergei Tonkovid / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article shows where the factor of Holiness takes place in design. The author is based on the religious sense of design. Examples of design in which there is a problem of choice of good and evil are shown. We found a way in the design, which leads to beneficial results, to the Holiness of the designer.

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Изображения на български светци, просияли през периода на османското владичество от територията на днешна Гърция

Author(s): Nedyalka Yamakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The subject of the present study is the depiction of Bulgarian saints, martyrs, who appeared during the Ottoman rule in the period 17 th – 19 th centuries, from the territory of today's Greece. Such are the saints - martyrs: Angel Bitolski, Kirana Solunska, Zlata Maglenska, Nikita Serski, Akakii Serski, Dimo Ribar, Atanas Solunsky, Alexander Solunski, Hristo Gradinar, Trendafil Zagorski, who are the subject of the study. The aforementioned saints are described in the collections of the lives of Bulgarian saints, but there are no images of them in our temples, except for St. Zlata Maglenska. The lack of images of these saints was the main motive to be made a tour around a number of cities in Greece. To visit orthodox temples and places related to their lives and to take pictures of their images.

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Храм-памятник сввятого Саввы как символ святости современной Сербии

Author(s): Olivera Tonkovid / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the history, role and significance of the most majestic Church for the faithful citizens of Serbia. It shows the architectural and artistic features of the building, as well as its attitude to the Serbian-Russian Commonwealth.

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Арменската апостолическа православна църква "Сурп Кеворк" - свещен символ за пловдивската общност

Author(s): Takuhi Tavityan / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church "Surp Kevork" ("St. George") is a unifying centre for the Armenians in Plovdiv and a symbol of faith. The role it performs for the geographically dispersed community is complex and multi-layered. The study established the following hypothesis: the church and the museum have a social and spiritual function. The main purpose of the report is to reveal why the church has become a sacred symbol for the Armenian community in Plovdiv. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to solve two research tasks, namely: to present a brief history of the church and to determine the role of the church museum located in the temple

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Исихастки и исторически измерения на светостта в иконографията на света Петка Епиватска

Author(s): Lyubomira Stefanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This study discusses unexplored relation of migrations of saint Petka as hermit and of her relics among people and cultures along their development and interconnection. Special scholarly interest is focused on representation of saint in iconic perspective in various forms of church art from late Medieval period to modern national narratives of Balkan ountries.Rapid recent development of media and technologies provide contemporary believers with information that shift public attention from issues of saint’s national belonging and particular political roles of veneration in separate local contexts, to distinguishing of specific way of saint Petka to sainthood and her religious personality as cultural heritage.

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Аспекти на развитиеjо на християнската химнография в периода V-VIII век, отразени в музикалното творчество на изявени свети личности

Author(s): Elena Arnaudova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The period V-VIII century is distinguished by its special importance in the history of liturgical singing. It is connected with the rise of church-song creation as a response to the ever widespread spread of heresies. Even before the schism in the 11th century, during this period, the main differences between church chants in the Eastern and Western Roman Catholic Church were established. The present theoretical study aims to clarify some of the more important aspects of Christian hymnography by asking the answer to the question: Who are the holy person - the hymnographers who have a key role in the development of the churchmusic during this period. The subject of the present study is the contribution of the hymnographers Roman Melod; Andrej Kritski and Joan Damaskin, whose creativity stands out for their special significance.

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"Със светиите упокой, Христе"

Author(s): January Dzhangozov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The main points in the report highlights the relationship between the living and the dead, between the private and the common prayer, and the unity of the Church. The private prayer for the dead occurs spontaneously, since it is an act of the love for your own, and from there it flows into the common prayer, because the Church has always helped its members by praying for the dead during the holy Divine Liturgy. The other main focus is the merciful sacrifice to God as it is stated, in the symbol of faith, upon the terrible and glorious Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ

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Личността на свещеника при духовното обгрижване на наркозависими

Author(s): Ivan Genov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The main task of the cleric during his working with drug addicts: is to create conditions for churching of those coming to him who need it. This is only possible in an atmosphere of love and empathy; as inadmissible any form of condemnation or mannerism to a person, whether drugs addict or an alcoholic. A special place in the life of a healthy addict takes the restoration of the ability to have normal fellowship with the people around him - the so-called social rehabilitation. It is made much easier in a church community. The cleric has a huge, difficult and responsible task in his work with drug addicts. He must very carefully, gradually and patiently lead the man to the idea of God. And if it is intrusive, it can repel man. Everything requires patience and tolerance. In working with addicts, the priest must give his spiritual example; to keep a close watch on how it behaves and at the same time friendly to show that he can count on him; that the addict can trust and express the grief of his heart; thus bringing the cleric to the inside of his soul - to discover the pain that has prompted him to this way of life; to find the essence of the spiritual problem that is the basis for the beginning of human drug adoption. The cleric, working with addicts, must first of all have a deeply established and unwavering faith in God which shines and warm whole being (see. Hebrews 11: 6); also to have a dedicated self-sacrificial Love.

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Взаимодействие медицины и религии как результат процесса возрождения православной культуры

Author(s): Ecatherina Cantaruk / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

This article considers two important directions in a revival of Orthodox culture it is a medicine and a religion. This interaction is shown in the opening of the Orthodox hospital temple.

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В мълчанието на вярата

Author(s): Ivelina Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This text try to outline some guidance on the topic of faith of the people in the village Vladichentsi. The main points of the subject are related to the nature of faith and religious identity of the people. Indirectly these questions ask another important question: is it possible acquisition of holiness without adequate participation in Orthodox life of the Church. We will try to essayistic style to tell about his observations of meetings with them and outline the parameters of his work further.

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Репродуктивни практики и маркери на локална идентичност

Author(s): Atanaska Madzharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Each year, two weeks before Easter, the church in the neighborhood of Gorni Voden in Assenovgrad accommodates a congregation which comes for a specific purpose - to pray for a child birth. In the countryside and throughout the country, the holiday is known as the “Golden Apple” - a name almost replacing the name of the church “Our Lady of the Assumption”. The popularity of the holiday is owing to the unique practice - the couples eat an apple as part of the ritual of conceiving a child. In addition to this practice, the women also receive a conception belt from the church. These two reproductive ritualistic practices are of interest because of the way they are carried out with new integrated elements each year.These popular customs are part of the folklore-magic tradition of Assenovgrad and have important place in the description of the history of assistance (help) in conception. What makes them so specific is that they are loaded with symbolism and serve as a link between the personal and collective attempts to tackle the problem of infertility. Considered useful and helpful in overcoming sterility, these practices remain persistent over time, and are still relevant.

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Литийни шествия и съвременни градски празници по примера на град Асеновград

Author(s): Vasil Karadzhov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the text are presented religious and urban feast days, which are distinguished by festive processions, following the example of Assenovgrad. The town is known for its Christian cult buildings and culture. In the narratives, the town is compared with the world's Christian centers and is recognizable by its constructed images such as the Little Jerusalem, the Rhodope Holy Mountain and etc. Twelve urban events with the participation of the local community are gathered in the text. The addition of the prayerful processions in the Bachkovo Monastery can create a regional calendar of the feast days. The religious feasts with their prayerful processions in Asenovgrad are mass and turn into town-wide. The secular celebrations borrow from the festive processions the festive movement in urban space. The routes connect two or more town topos such as churches, monasteries, chapels, Holy Water sources, town fountains, monuments, small streets, central town boulevards and the town square. This symbolically confirms the connections between them and makes them valuable to the local community by creating certain collective ideas about them and the past of the town. Often this happens on the basis of a reconstructed legend or story. The Asenovgrad locals enjoy celebrating and gladly participate on various occasions in festive processions like those gathered in this study.

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Смъртта и светостта в православието

Author(s): Kameliya Boshlova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article contains 4 paragraphs. At first death is regarded as a result of the first-born sin which takes away from human beings the ability to be attached to God's Holiness. The second paragraph presents historically relationship death-holiness in the ancient Greek civilization, and the changes brought by the monotheistic Hebrew religion. The third paragraph sets out the crucial role of the death of Jesus Christ for the Orthodox eschatology, Who, defeating death, turns it into a sacred tool of the believers’ salvation. In the last paragraph the author describes as an eyewitness and participant some funeral rituals, preserved and still practiced by the Vlachs in the village of Gamzovo, Northwestern Bulgaria. Basically the author draws our attention to her vision that, despite their pre-Christian origin, these traditions should not be condemned as superstitions, because they are influenced by the Christian Orthodox concept of death and afterlife.

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Сакрални символи при гръкоезичните нестинари

Author(s): Goran Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

At the beginning of the last century, the nestinarian ritual occurs only in some of the villages located in the Bulgarian part of Strandja mountain - Bulgari, Kosti, Brodilovo, Slivarovo, Gramatikovo and Novo Panicharevo. Ethnographic reports is point that, the performers of the ritual at that time are of Bulgarian and Greek origin. They form a nestinarian communities. Demographic changes in the Balkans from 1913-1914 imposed the destruction of this nestinarians communities, because the Greek-language anestinaris emigrate out of the borders of Bulgaria. This nestinari have settled in several villages in northern Greece - Mavrolevki, Meliki, Kerkini, Agia Eleni, and Langa. The study presents objects and images sacred to the nestinarian communities in Greece, which are perceived as symbolic markers of rituals. A special focus is their connections to the villages where they originated located on the territory of Bulgaria.

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Korzenie utopii

Author(s): Andrzej Sepkowski / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

“Ideology” of utopia is an abstraction of the methaphoric system of beliefs, values and institutional relationship that characterize a particular culture or society; mythology is the body of traditional narratives that exemplifies and historicized ideology. Myths are stories drawn from history, that have acquired through usage over many generations a symbol¬izing function central to the culture of the society that produces them. The language of myth assimilates the peculiar and contingent phenomena of secular history to archetypal patterns of growth and decay, salvation and damnation, death and rebirth. So formulated myths support that by understanding and imaginatively reenacting the conflict resolution of the past, we can interpret and control the unresolved conflicts of the present. The belief in ideal (utopistic) worlds is one of the oldest and most enduring patterns in we¬stern civilization. The idea that human history is divinely ordained and will lead to a period of heavenly perfection on earth can be dated at least as far back as the early prophecies. The search for salvation on earth is an obviously important component of the quest from ancient to our times. Its obvious, that every nation experiences its own fears and hopes and every tries to habituate them. Every nation needs a vision of utopia.

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