Viata Maicii Doumnului, asa cum este cunoscuta in traditia bisericii ortodoxe. Scrisa intr-o frumoasa, calda si limpede curgatoare limba romaneasca cartea este deschisa tuturor si povesteste cele mai importante momente din viata Maicii Domnului (nasterea, intrarea in templu, bunavestire, nasterea Domnului, momente traite alaturi de Fiul sau dumnezeiesc si de patimile Lui, adormirea). Fiecare moment este insotit de un tropar, un condac si un irmos, ceea ce face posibila, pentru cei doritori de mai multa liniste sufleteasca, incheierea lecturii fiecarui capitol in meditatie si reculegere. Cartea mai cuprinde un capitol despre Praznicul Acoperamantului Maicii Domnului, invataturi despre tainele icoanei Maicii Domnului, cele mai cunoscute rugaciuni catre Sfanta Fecioara care pot fi memorate si folosite ca hrana de toate zilele a sufletului si cuvintele unui frumos cantec vechi romanesc. Prezentata intr-o foarte ingrijita tinuta grafica cu minunate icoane pe cele doua coperti, cartea poate fi un pretios dar pentru fiecare crestin de orice varsta.

Viata Maicii Domnului (English and Romanian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Groza, Horia Ion

Leaders & Notable People

Reflection Publishing Co.

This book is addressed to contemporary Christians. They are under a continuous attack from many unbelieving scientists and from the so-called "free" thinkers. I think religion provides the spinal column of the ethics of a society and therefore it is necessary more now than in previous times. If we may paraphrase the historian of religions Mircea Eliade's terms, we might say that, for a person with faith in God, there are two kinds of time: sacred time and profane time. The sacred time is the time of God, of the Creator; it is chairos and it is eternal. The profane time is the historical time, the time of the creation, of man and of all living creatures; it is chronos, the quotidian time that flows unceasingly without repeating itself. Our soul is immortal and its time, since we were conceived, is eternal. Our body is perishable and its time is transitory. Therefore, a Christian is called to discover the ever-living time of his soul, and especially the sacred aspect of it. This book is a continuation of a previous volume, "Discovering the Sacred Time of Our Life," which pleaded for the necessity of realizing the profound eternity, proper to God and our soul, that hides like an invisible, long and uninterrupted shadow behind all our daily events. This second volume talks about the actual "living the sacred time of our life." It discusses the principles of a Christian life in relation to personal, family, and societal necessities. It refers to the Sunday and Feast readings in Church. The book invites to a higher receptivity to the miracles, the language of God, especially the little miracles which occur all the time around us, inspiring our souls and strengthening us in our daily trials. The book brings suggestions applied directly to the specificity of a Christian life in our American society and supplies less accessible information from the spiritual teachings of the Eastern European Fathers, including Romanian Elders. Romania is a country where Holy Apostle Andrew evangelized, martyrs suffered for their faith since the third century, and the monastic life reached a peak of outstanding hesychastic wisdom, becoming in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a center of Christian spirituality as strong as Mount Sinai was in the sixth century and Mount Athos was in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. About the author The essayist, poet and novel writer Horia Ion Groza (born in Romania and established in USA in 1986), has a PhD in plant genetics and breeding and he worked 40 years in the latter domain of scientific research. He authored eleven books from which five are about Christian faith and tradition. For his Romanian publications he was awarded the LiterArt XXI Prize for journalism (1999) and for essays (2002).

Living the Sacred Time of Our Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1722-1794), also known as Saint Paisius of Neamts, lived a monastic life in Ukraine, Romania and Greece (Mt.Athos). He was a man of fervent prayer, a promoter of Jesus Prayer, an ascetic monk, the author of the first translation of Greek Philokalia, a teacher of spiritual improvement, a great reorganizer of large monastic communities, a wise and loving abbot, and a Saint with many outstanding gifts from God. By his work and writings, he ties in a marvelous manner the heritage of the Holy Fathers of fourth to fifteenth centuries to the three great hesychastic centers of the eighteen century (Mt. Athos, Moldo-Vlachia, Russia) and to the origins of Orthodox Christianity in North America (St. Herman of Alaska). The effect of Paisianism and Post-Paisianism on the spirituality of the monastic and laity life is obvious for the whole period from the eighteenth century until today. Contemporary with the Era of Reason in Western Europe marked by Enlightenment (Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau), Saint Paisius defended an Era of Faith in Eastern Europe, which today gives a firm riposte to the Apostasy so obvious in Occident. This book analyzes Saint Paisius' life and work and also some important Paisian moments from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: in Romania (Saint Callinicus of Chernika and the "Burning Bush" Movement), in Russia (Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Elders of Optina), and in America (Saint Herman of Alaska and Father Seraphim Rose of Platina). Comments are made on the importance of practicing Jesus Prayer in the daily life of every Orthodox Christian.

Saint Paisius Velichkovsky of Neamts and Paisianism

Historical

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