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Pnevmatic experience in prayer from the perspective of Orthodox theology and Pentecostal theology. Missiological evaluation

Author(s): Alexandru Baciu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Man, created by God in His image, is by excellence a Eucharistic and liturgical being, and his purpose is to glorify God in prayer. Prayer, from the perspective of Orthodox theology, is not only a form of dialogue with God, it is also a spiritual union with Him. It is a work of the Holy Trinity in man (Revelation 3: 20). Philocalic parents say that it is a gift, a spiritual food for the mind, a way of existence of the new man reborn by grace, the sight of the unseen, trust in what is desired, the feast of angels, the fruit of joy and thanksgiving, the appearance of God and for His work is one, the work of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, who worketh all in Jesus Christ. It is, after all, an act of faith, but especially of love. From the perspective of Pentecostal theology, prayer is the most important spiritual activity of the congregation, but also of the believer alone. It encompasses and captures any other activity and expresses the emotional richness of the Christian. According to Steven Jack Land, “Pentecostal prayer” is exalted (performed) in three forms, modeling and expressing “Pentecostal affections” (gratitude, compassion, and courage) each in its own way. These forms are: with understood words, often articulated, expressing gratitude, without words concretized in sighs, sighs showing compassion, and with misunderstood words as an expression of the acquisition of the gift of speaking in tongues, often emphasizing courage, confidence and hope.

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Contemporanii Sfântului Grigorie Palama. Perspectivă istorică și teologică

Author(s): Cristian-Alexandru BARNEA / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

He who delves into the writings of St. Gregory Palamas and strives to understand the meaning of his theology, cannot fail to remain, at one point, amazed by the beauty of such inspired and enlightened thinking, contemplating the richness of Godʼs work through the people who are opening themselves to him with all their being. Meeting Saint Gregory Palamas through his writings and knowing his life will always raise the question: how did a man manage to reach such an experience of spiritual life? How did he enlarge his heart to accommodate so much light of divine grace? What were the important moments in his life that brought him so close to God, but, above all, who were the people who shaped the personality of the great Thessalonian hierarch throughout his life?

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Creștinul, între viața lăuntrică și implicarea socială. Angajarea în dezbaterile despre statutul copilului nenăscut

Author(s): Emanuel Buta / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

This article aims to explore the place of the Christians in society, especially regarding their involvement in the debates about the status of the unborn child. The paper assesses two opposing ways of understanding the Christian life – one of them being that of focusing only on the inner life and repenting for the personal sins, and the other one being that of active involvement in social issues, without counting the progress in personal life. It is argued that the best way is the middle one, the way of equilibrium, which appeals to discernment and which unites the spiritual inner life with social participation, particularly on the problem of denying the unborn child’s dignity from our society.

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Două practici ale vieții duhovnicești: atenția asupra propriei vieți și starea de priveghere. Importanța lor în viața duhovnicească

Author(s): Alexandru Crețu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The importance of paying attention to one's life is important because it is meant to keep the believer more and more from remaining in the way of the Lord. In the writings of the New Testament, the phrase „remembering yourself” is used at least eight times, and in three of these places it is used by the Savior Jesus Christ. In the writings of the New Testament, the call to vigilance refers, on the one hand, to the vigilance or wakefulness of the body (to dedicate that time to prayer), and, on the other hand, to the vigilance of the soul, mind, or conscience. to be prepared for the battle with the enemy and always ready to leave this world). This exhortation was used by the Savior in His tenfold speeches, and in the rest of the New Testament writings we find it used at least ten more times. By the exhortations to watch over the body, the Savior did not mean a permanent deprivation of sleep, but the prolongation of the waking state of the body in order to to dedicate that time to prayer.

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The Sacramental Mission of the Orthodox Church in Contemporary Europe

Author(s): Mihai Hirt / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In order to establish correctly the present context of the Church's testimony, it is necessary to establish briefly the pluralism and tolerance within modernism and the dialectic between modernism and post-modernism. For this reason, this issue can be addressed by referring to the contrast between pre-modernism, modernism and post-modernism. If we keep talking about a new economy, we will soon be able to talk about a new Christianity. Not so much from a dogmatic point of view, but rather from a racial distribution. By superimposing this reality on the effects of globalization and the rise of Islam, we will be able to witness the return to that system of transnational order in the Middle Ages, which disappeared with the advent of the nation-state system and the rise of secularism Under the current conditions, political affiliation will become less and less relevant, and religious affiliation will become much more important. The concept of the national state is extremely vulnerable. Likewise, the connection between a certain political entity and a certain denomination will become irrelevant. From this point of view, it is very interesting to speculate on the evolution of the Orthodox Churches, which identify extremely much with the national village. Given the universal vocation of Christianity, this formula is somewhat unfortunate and gives rise to unnecessary antagonisms.

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Protopopii Protopopiatului Chișineu-Criș (1919-1968)

Author(s): Alin-Florin Ciotea / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

In the second half of the 18th century, the Diocese of Arad consisted of a number of eleven archdioceses. Among them was the Chisinau-Cris Archdiocese, based in the homonymous town. For 200 years, the history of the Diocese of Arad has been marked at the level of all sectors, by this archdiocese. Although little known even locally, medallions of archpriests from 1919-1968 drawn in this study, capture people and celebrities who, through their work, managed to impress the upper forums. With a special activity in the missionary and cultural field, the six archpriests prove to be providential people, who kept the flame of faith and culture burning in difficult times such as: the interwar period, World War Il or the great challenge of the communist regime, which 20 years after its establishment, in 1968,abolished the mentioned archdiocese. The series of archpriests from Chisinau-Cris shows the importance of this archdiocese among the others of the Arad diocese, as well as the essential role played by the archdiocese, through its leaders, in key moments of church, cultural or national-political life.

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Viziunea lui Clement Alexandrinul despre rugăciune

Author(s): Mărioara Drăgan / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The endeavour of Clement of Alexandria to weave the power of the graceful unity between theology as a prayer experienced in personal life, as a spiritual exercise in the complex process of contemplation, as evidenced by his writings, and theology as a science he strives to argue using the tools offered by the existing tools of his time, philosophy and science. The connection between the two comes from a theoretical contemplative and visionary practice, as one may say. Clement passes from knowledge as science to knowledge as mystery, from an external theology to an inner theology, namely to mystical theology. The spiritual union of man with God, through the view of uncreated light, will be identified in the context of hesychastic theology by Saint Simeon the New Theologian, a few centuries later. Clement's influence on the evolution of the later Christian spirituality, especially on the Eastern one, has been proved especially in the treatises of prayer by Origen and Evagrius Ponticus.

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An East Syriac Patriarch of the late 6th century and his Christians in Eastern Arabia. Contextualization and Preliminary Remarks on the Letter of Ishoyahb I to Jacob of Dirin

Author(s): Andrei Macar / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Ishoyahb I was Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East (the so called “Nestorian Church”) in a time of significant liturgical changes. These started with the patriarchate of Mar Aba (540-552) and continued till the 7th century. In this context, Bishop Jacob of Dirin (an island in the Persian Gulf, near Bahrain) had a couple of questions on liturgical, moral and disciplinary matters and addressed the Catholicos in a letter for clarification. The letter of Bishop Jacob is not preserved, but we have available the response letter of the Catholicos Ishoyahb I. Scholars remarked the importance of this Syriac response letter in that it was placed in “Synodicon Orientale”, one important canonical collection of the Church of the East. In their view, the letter of Ishoyahb I is a pastoral-liturgical compendium and an important source for the East Syriac liturgical tradition at the end of the6th century. Despite the appreciation that scholars have shown for this text in the past, it has so far been little analysed, except for its contribution to the history of the East Syrian Anaphora. In my opinion, the importance of Ishoyahb's letter goes beyond liturgical studies, being relevant also for the field of Church History, because it provides valuable information on the life of the Christians in the region of nowadays Bahrain and Qatar, at the end of the6th century. Furthermore, the letter contributes to the history of East Syriac Patriarchs because it plays a significant role in establishing the intellectual profile of Catholicos-Patriarch Ishoyahb I and the sources of his theological thought. The objectives of this paper are to place the letter in its historical context and to offer some remarks on its textual transmission and on its value for the liturgical and historical research.

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Vederea luminii dumnezeiești la Sfinții Isihaști Simeon Noul Teolog și Grigore Palama

Author(s): Ilarion Mâță / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

In the context of the Homage Year of prayer in the life of the Church and of the christian and of the Commemorative Year dedicated to the Hesychast saints Simeon the New Theologian, Grigore Palama and Paisie from Neamț Monastery dedicated by the Romanian Patriarchate, the sight of divine light is an essential theme, both to the hesychastic saints. The hesychastic saints' concern for man's intimate encounter with God through prayer is so obvious that their life, work, and social work confirm that the spiritual life of the Orthodox Christian cannot be lived without aspiring to the sight of divine light.

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Un Sfânt isihast român, puțin cunoscut Cuviosul Antipa de la Calapodești

Author(s): Lucian Mihail Moisei / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The uninterrupted existence of thousands of hermits and hundreds of hermitages with monastic life in the Romanian Lands, since the 14th century, was the reason why, monks from neighbouring countries, such as Vasile de la Poiana Mărului (1692-1767), Onufrie de la Vorona (1700-1789), or Paisie Velicicovschi (1722-1794), chose to settle in these places, contributing to the renewal of Orthodox monasticism, by translating and printing the philocalic writings. Father Antipas of Calapodesti (1816-1882), follows the path trodden in the Romanian Lands by prominent hesychast monks. He received from God the gift of unceasing prayer, about which he spoke and advised with great ease, of long fasting, of simplicity, of tears of humility and of foreknowledge, managing to make himself loved both by simple people and by those in positions of leadership, metropolitans, bishops, abbots of monasteries, priests, or simple monks, some of whom even became his spiritual sons. The genuinely Christian life of the Father Antipas, his wonderful and exemplary life, was unanimously recognized by all, and he was honored as a saint in the Monastery of "Saint Panteleimon" in Mount Athos since 1906, shortly after his death, and was officially canonized in 1992 by the Romanian Orthodox Church and introduced into the Calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

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Semnificații teologico-duhovnicești ale spațiului liturgic – înțelesuri de altǎdatǎ pentru omul de azi

Author(s): Viorel Sava / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Our article is concentrated on the main significances of the liturgical space. The idea to concentrate on such a topic was inspirated by the Prayer year as 2022 was dedicated in Romanian Patriarchate. Speaking about prayer we need to refer to the place which is built to be the place of prayer. That is the church. Through the Service of consacration a newbuilding church becomes the House of the Eucharistic Liturgy an the House of The Holy Trinity. The architecture of the church has to be done in the spirit of the main service which is celebrated in it. It means that the church has to be constructed in the spirit of the Liturgy. Being dedicated exclusevely to the Liturgy the church is a liturgical space. In our article we pointed out some theological significances of the liturgical space as they are reflected in the Service of consacration of a new church and in the liturgical interpretation of St. Simeon of Thessalonika. Concluding, we focused on the need of liturgical catechesis which has to be addressed to our contemporary society.

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Credința ortodoxă și rugăciunea în viața și opera părintelui profesor Ilarion V. Felea

Author(s): Emilian Crisanul Nica / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The life of Father Ilarion V. Felea's life, in its various aspects, sacramentally, in the parishes in which he served, academically-scientifically, as a teacher at the Theological Academies of Sibiu and Arad, but especially the ordeal of imprisonment in Gherla and Aiud and his martyrdom in the Communist dungeon on September 18, 1961, places him among the great fathers of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 20th century. From his writings, as from his life, emanates the authentic living of Orthodoxy, with full faith, even if in a hostile time and environment, both politically and confessionally. The present study aims, in a brief presentation based on the writings of Father Ilarion V. Felea, to reveal him, in the " Year of Prayer in the Church’s life and the Christian’s life", as a worthy example to follow in the confession of faith and in the practice of prayer.

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From the Light of Prayer to Pastoral Theology: Aspects of Episcopal Ministry in the Writings of Saint Ephrem the Syrian

Author(s): Bassam Nassif / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Saint Ephrem the Syrian has a special message to offer to theology today. The model he gives in opening the spiritual eyes for the light of Christ to radiate in his body, leads to radiating this light into pastoral action. Thus, pastoral theology ought to be based on this experience of light, practiced in spiritual words and actions. Saint Ephrem wrote teaching hymns, defending the faith against heresies, and fighting social injustice. As an enlightened man of God, he became a master of both spirituality and pastoral ministry. This research aims to analyze how Saint Ephrem translates his personal experience of light into pastoral work, by examining how he expresses his theological thought, interprets pastoral theology, and presents the ministry of episcopacy in particular. For this Antiochian saint, theology is a hymn to the Light, translated into genuine acts of love, faith, and life.

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De „mistique ordonnance” du prêtre (I): les prières au cours de l’Office de Matines et leurs significations théologiques, liturgiques et spirituels

Author(s): Lucian Vasile PETROAIA / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Few Christians know that, apart from what it is seen in the church (movements, gestures or small liturgical rituals), the priest also performs unseen ordinances, required by his status as a sanctified person and by the liturgical services. Some of these „secret ordinances” are prayers that the priest says in the Holy Altar, in parallel with the service that takes place in the church, without them being heard by the faithful. Of these, in the present study, I have chosen to make a theological, liturgical, and spiritual analysis of the text of the prayers which the priest reads „in secret”, while the six Psalms from the beginning of Matins are read aloud at the pew. Apart from a few brief references by the priest professors Petre Vintilescu, Ene Branişte and Dumitru Stăniloae, in Romanian theology there is, so far, no analytical study on this topic.

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Prima anafora antiohiană a celor doisprezece apostoli. Sursă liturgică primară cvasicunoscută în spațiul românesc

Author(s): Ammar Awad / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Since the twenties of the last century, the Anaphora of the Apostles, which is the subject of this study, has been the focus of attention of liturgical scholars. This is due to Patriarch Rahmani's discovery of the striking similarity between it and the Byzantine anaphora of St. John Chrysostom. Throughout all these years, this anaphora has been considered a primary tool for researching the history of the anaphora of St. John Chrysostom, especially in the absence of historical evidence supporting the authenticity of this well-known Byzantine liturgy. This article is concerned with presenting the role of the Apostles' anaphora, not merely as a research tool, as just mentioned, but rather as a basic liturgical source that rises in value to the importance of the earliest Christian liturgical sources, and which has played a crucial role in the history of Christian worship, and which deserves to be studied in greater depth. This study also provides the Romanian theological academic circles with the translation of the anaphora from Syriac, the language in which the text has been preserved and has been handed to us; it also helps those who wish to deepen this research process and reach new discoveries.

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Înmormântarea mirenilor în Molitfelnicele Sinodale – studiu istorico-liturgic

Author(s): Dănuț-Bogdan Palcău / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Romanian Church has came up with 17 editions of the Euchologion after received the autocephaly. From the rites presented in this book, without a doubt, the one which is mostly used is the funeral of the laity. Analysing it, indifferent editions of the Euchologion, I observed that we can find some differences. On one hand, we can observe a series of differences in regards to the structure on which this rites is build, and on the other hand, the changes can be observed on the content of particular elements. The proposed study contains an inventory of all the differences, highlighting them in a systematical way. At the same time, a question related to the root-cause of these differences is born. The secondary purpose of this study, having the same value as the one above, is to show the origin of all these differences. With this approach, we propose to present the way in which the desire for correcting and improving the writings has been born, in regards to the funeral of laity, in the synodal Euchologions.

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Manuscrise ale Arhieraticoanelor românești din Biblioteca Academiei Române

Author(s): Iulian-Ciprian Rusu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Archieratikon (slav. Chinovnik, eng. Bishop's Service Book) is the name for the service book that includes on one hand the liturgical guide (gr. typikon), together with the content of the services officiated only by the bishops: like cheirotonia and cheirothesia, The Holy Myrrh sanctification, consecration for churches and antimensions and, on the other hand, typikonal rubrics for services with bishop participation: Vespers, Mattins and Holy Liturgy. In the following study we shall use term Archieratikon also with meaning correlated with those fascicle – excerpts from Bishop's Service Book – containing one or more rubrics for bishop liturgical services. The reasoning for this use consists in the following ascertainment: a book named Archieratikon with his properly individuality, with a similar extent or table of contents and an identical name did not existed until 1890, when the first Archieratikon was printed, with the Holy Romanian Orthodox Church Synod approval and blessing. That's why Archieratikon - manuscripts dated before this event have a permissive, discretionary and subjective character. The Romanian Archieratikon books could not afford the expensive luxury of typography, since the book was used, theoretically, by the archiereus only. Every bishop used to extract only what he subjectively considered necessary, and he was paying a copyist to make his own Archieratikon. Although the uniformity of services and typicon order has suffered in this context, there was a very high positive impact on ecclesial culture, consisting of manuscripts with ornaments, miniatures, frontispieces – real pieces of art, Romanian treasures of culture and spirituality. Therewith, studying these manuscripts, we can affirm that their development was an essential factor in Romanian language evolution and maturation.

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Réjouis-toi, «la divine Source du Paradis». La Mère de Dieu dans l’hymnographie du Pentecostaire

Author(s): Gherasim Soca / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

In the theology and hymnography of the liturgical period of the Pentecostarion, the Theotokos holds a prominent place as the one chosen by God the Father to offer human nature to His Incarnate Son and, therefore, as the first one to see her Resurrected Son. God granted her the fullness of spiritual gifts, so that she may personify the highest state which can be reached by a human united with God. Possessing Full of divine gifts and love, the Holy Virgin imparts these gifts to people and becomes a divine source of blessings and healings. The hymnography of Pentecostarion abounds in metaphors and epithets expressing the attributes of the Theotokos, far outnumbering those describing her Son, Jesus Christ. Which is the spiritual and theological significance of these qualifiers of the Theotokos? What place does she hold in the mystagogy of the Pentecostarion? What occasioned a feast dedicated to Our Lady, at the end of the Bright Week, and what do the hymns of this feast convey? What is the significance of healing, in this mystagogical context? The present paper addresses these questions, aiming to provide better understanding and experience of the services during this liturgical period.

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Istoricul și dezvoltarea liturgică a Praznicului Întâmpinării Domnului în Răsărit. Celebrare și integrare în cult

Author(s): Iuliana Timofti / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

This study aims to present the history of the feast celebrating the Presentation of the Lord at the Temple (otherwise called the Hypapante feast, from the Gr. Ὑπαπαντή - meeting) in the Eastern part of the Christendom from a theological and a liturgical perspective, until its official adoption in the Church calendar. At the beginning, the Hypapante feast was merely known as the „fortieth day after the Epiphany”, as Egeria notes in the oldest record of this celebration, marked – from the first moment – by great joy and solemnity as on any of the dominical feasts. Later, the date of the celebration will be established by imperial decree and the festal hymnography will be fixed.

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Interesul Sfântului Paisie Velicikovski pentru scrierile filocalice

Author(s): Hrisant (Antonios) TSACHAKIS / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

It is very well known in the orthodox balkan world that the holy Abbot Paisie Velicikofski from Neamts, is one of the greatest ascetic and spiritual father of our Orthodox Church and represents an example for all Christians. For those who are living in monasteries, he is a model of ascetic effort and spiritual living. He fully fulfills the quality of Christian, monk, abbot and man of culture, being the initiator of an important translation work of patristic, liturgical and canonical writings, a work that he liked very much. Regarding the philolocal activity and the concern of Saint Paisius for the writings of the great mystical and ascetic fathers of the Church, shows him, without a doubt, as the first Russian, renewer of the monastic life in the Balkans, following the Athonite way of life, thus renewing the ascetic tradition and restoring the practice of heart-mental prayer, which had been almost forgotten.

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