Różnorodność i hierarchizacja świętych w Kościele prawosławnym

• Authors: Jarosław Charkiewicz

Abstracts

EN

The cult of the saints forms an integral part of the Orthodoxy. The Church Fathers make a distinction though between veneration of the saints and adoration due to God only. The saints form so called “triumphant Church” – the Church of heaven. Through the example of their lives and their intercession before God for us the saints lead us on the path of salvation. Each saint, including the Most Holy Mother of God, received unique charisms, followed Christ in his own way, bore his cross and through martyrdom, askesis or other virtues crucified in himself the old, fallen man in order to restore His image in him, become like Him, participate in God’s eternal glory. We pray the saints, paint their icons, asking for their intercession as well as for their help in all sorts of problems. The terms like “local saint” or “universal saint” just underline the character of their liturgical celebration, though the saints themselves can be venerated all over the world. In the relatively complicated system of classification of the feasts in the Orthodox Church we find also the liturgical commemoration of the saints. There we have, apart from the great feasts with three of them dedicated to saint John the Baptist and the saint apostles Peter and Paul, five other categories of the feasts with decreasing solemnity in each group.

Keywords

PL

prawosławie; kult świętych; hierarchia świętych; kategorie świętych; kategorie świąt

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Synody Cerkwi Prawosławnej w I Rzeczypospolitej
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 241-254

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Jarosław Charkiewicz

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2171210