| Tweet Нравится Bible to be translated into Russian sign language beginning with Gospel of Mark Moscow, February 2, 2017 Photo: http://www.effafa.ru/ A meeting on the project to translate the Bible into Russian sign language was held in Moscow on January 27. The participants, representing the patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service, the Institute for Bible Translation, the All-Russian Society for the Deaf, clergy working with the deaf from various dioceses, sign language interpreters, and the deaf community, decided to begin with the Gospel of Mark, reports the site of the Moscow Patriarchate. Meeting participants decided the Gospel of Mark would be the easiest to translate, and “besides, out of the four Gospels, only the Gospel of Mark mentions the healing of the deaf man,” noted the deputy director of the Institute for Bible Translation Natalia Gorbunova. The idea of translating the Bible into sign language was developed by the aforementioned synodal department, Bible society, and society for the deaf. The first meeting was held in December. The target audience is both churched and secular deaf people looking for the Gospel in sign language in video format, as well as those who would like to learn sign language to communicate and work with the deaf. “Sign language is very diverse, and we should preserve this diversity,” said the head of the Ekaterinburg Diocese’s pastoral, missionary, and social service center Hieromonk Vissarion (Kukushkin). Accordingly, the Gospel will be translated into Russian sign language with elements of foreign-borrowed words. A dictionary of Biblical terms will be developed at the same time. Today sixty-two Orthodox parishes and communities with the deaf and blind, working with various departments and organizations to offer educational courses on the basics of sign language for priests, social workers, and volunteers, and to produce educational videos for the deaf. 2 февраля 2017 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: |
| Kievan Rus’ is best known by its literature-which centered on Scripture (q.v.). Ironically, no complete manuscript of the Slavic Bible exists from this period. (See Constantine-Cyril; Gennadievskii Bible; Methodius.) Nonetheless, the popular power of liturgy and the personal piety (qq.v.) of the people of Kievan Rus’ dictated that spiritual writings were of the utmost importance. Religious writings were called sacred and divine insofar as they were not heretical. The idea of distinguishing between the inspired Holy Scriptures, the Church Fathers (q.v.), and the apocrypha (i.e., non-Biblical rather than “deuterocanonical”) did not exist. Indeed, the apocrypha was especially liked because of its fabulous content, which appealed to the imagination and was entertaining. Since the Old Testament enjoyed limited liturgical use, only the prescribed church readings were collected into one liturgical book (q.v.), rendering a complete Old Testament unnecessary. Other available biblical books for church and private use circulated in smaller collected editions. The Book of Psalms was the most popular one, outpacing even the Gospels, and was used not only as the “prayerbook of the Church” but also as the chief reading primer. After the psalter and individual Gospels came the prophets and wisdom literature, especially Sirach. The Palaea, a “Reader’s Digest version” of the “historical books” of the Old Testament dressed up with apocryphal legends, completed the list. While reading was a virtue of the elite, and liturgy appealed to both elite and peasant, Holy Scripture and apocryphal works were rivaled in popularity only by translations of the lives of saints, followed by sermons (see Kirill of Turov) and patristic exegeses. Thus, three of the largest and most popular literary corpuses of Kievan Rus’ had Scripture as their centerpiece. (See Russian Orthodox Church.) Читать далее Источник: The A to Z of the Orthodox Church/Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson - Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 462 p. ISBN 1461664039 |
| Сети богословия Тема недели: Почитание мощей в православии Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Мнение Мнение Статья Статья Статья Новые материалы 1 января Liturgy as a Way of Evangelisation Evangelisation is the proclamation of the good news of salvation. It is not merely teaching a system of beliefs or transmitting a moral code. In this article Professor Archimandrite Job Getcha highlights the connection between evangelisation and our encounter with the living God in the Orthodox Liturgy. Статья Introduction Evangelisation is the proclamation of the good news of salvation. It is not merely teaching a system of beliefs or transmitting a moral code. Therefore, evangelisation should always be linked with a personal experience, and an encounter with the living God, and not only with a pedagogical method. For the Orthodox Church, mission and evangelisation have always been linked with the liturgical experience. Worship has always been the starting point of mission and the heart of evangelisation. If we look in history, we can find several illustrations of this. One can recall the story of Cyril and Methodius. In the 9 th century, when Rastislav, the chief of the people of Moravia, became irritated by the attitude of the Franc missionaries who were using Latin in the evangelisation process of his people, he asked the Byzantine emperor Michael III to send him missionaries who would know the Slavic language. Then the two learned brothers of Thessalonica, Cyril and Methodius, were sent to Moravia, and started their missionary work by translating the liturgical lectionary into the Slavic language as well as the liturgical books. It is said that Cyril translated the text of the four gospels to be read at worship, as well as the texts of the various liturgical services: matins, hours, vespers, compline and the Divine Liturgy. This is an important detail: the two famous missionaries did not start their evangelisation mission by translating a catechism, neither a handbook of doctrine, nor a compilation of sermons, but by bringing the liturgical texts to the language of the local people so that their mission could be done by the means of the liturgy. |
| Диакон Владимир Василик Его приемная всегда была полна народом, это были почтенные протоиереи и архимандриты, простые миряне, убеленные сединами старушки и молодые люди. Для всех них владыка находил время и возможность побеседовать, наставить на путь истинный, дать нужный совет в должное время… English Edition [Theology] Alexei Ilyich Osipov The methodical development of imagination is based in the experience of one of the pillars of Catholic mysticism, the founder of the order of Jesuits and great Catholic saint Ignatius of Loyola (sixteenth century). His book Spiritual Exercises enjoys great authority in Catholicism. Ignatius himself said of his book that if one reads it, it could replace the Gospels. He tells the reader to imagine the crucified Christ, to attempt to penetrate the world of Christ’s feelings and sufferings, to mentally converse with the Crucified One, etc. All this contradicts in principle the basics of spiritual ascetic labor as it has been given to us in the lives of the saints of the Universal Church. [News] On October 2, 2010, the website of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) posted a summary of The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. [News] At the 2010 fall clergy retreat of the Diocese of Chicago & Mid-America of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which took place on October 15, the day following the patronal feast of the Protection Cathedral in Chicago, Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) was present among the guest speakers. [News] On October 5, 2010, His Eminence Archbishop Feodor of Mukashevsk-Uzhgorod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church visited the Diocese of San Francisco and Western America of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. [News] On 21 October 2010, “One Thousand years of Pilgrimage in Russian” exhibition opened at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Laura of the Caves in Kiev with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine. |
| Little has been written about this small country and its saints. Now, Pravoslavie.Ru presents the entire collection of the Lives of the Georgian saints which has been translated for the first time into English. These lives encompass the seventeen hundred years of Orthodox Christianity in Georgia. The stories of ascetics and bishops, warriors and noblemen are intertwined with the tumultuous history of the Georgian land. Venerable Ekvtime, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist (†1804) Commemorated August 8/21 Venerable Ekvtime, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist (†1804) Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze Saint Ekvtime was abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in the Davit-GarejiWilderness. In the chronicles of the monastery he is commemorated as a “man of many labors.” Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Why we need and honor the saints Gabe Martini Why we need and honor the saints Gabe Martini Some Christians object to the idea of honoring Saints—whether that be venerating their relics and images, or asking them for their prayers—because they feel it is to ignore the living already with us in the Church here on earth. They will suggest that a danger lies in only “speaking with the dead,” as the dead either cannot or will not talk back to us, redirecting us when straying from the straight-and-narrow. But is this really the case? Venerable Finnian, Abbot of Clonard Commemorated December 12/25 Venerable Finnian, Abbot of Clonard Commemorated December 12/25 Dmitry Lapa The disciples of Clonard established hundreds of churches and monasteries in Ireland as well as in other countries. According to a custom which existed in Clonard, every monk who left the monastery as a missionary took with him a copy of the Gospels, a crozier and some holy object and later, when building his own church or monastery, placed these relics inside it. Venerable Genevieve of Paris Venerable Genevieve of Paris When she was fifteen, Genevieve was taken to Paris to enter the monastic life. Through fasting, vigil and prayer, she progressed in monasticism, and received from God the gifts of clairvoyance and of working miracles. Gradually, the people of Paris and the surrounding area regarded Genevieve as a holy vessel (2 Tim. 2:21). © 1999-2016 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Metropolitan Sergy of Ternopil: “It is important not to be despondent and not to increase one " s despondency”/Православие.Ru Metropolitan Sergy of Ternopil: “It is important not to be despondent and not to increase one " s despondency” Ternopil, the Ukraine, March 24, 2015 Metropolitan Sergy (Gensitsky) of Ternopil and Kremenets has answered the question of the Pravlife.org website: How a modern Christian should follow the words of the Savior, “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-14). “In order to be “the salt of the earth” we must act as Christians, according to the Gospels – only then we will become “the salt” of which the Lord spoke, the salt in which there is the Grace of God. Without Christ, without the Gospel and the holy fathers we will not be able to receive the Divine Grace. Take pure babies, for example, little cherubs – their eyes shine! And if we persevere in cleansing our souls from the sin, then someone will notice something good in us as well. The most important thing is not to lose your heart and not to increase despondency. In order to see light in another person, we ourselves need to be filled with light,” Metropolitan Sergy said. 26 марта 2015 г. Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также St. Lawrence of Chernigov: Some Prophecies and Statements on the Ukrainian Situation Dimitra Dwelley St. Lawrence of Chernigov: Some Prophecies and Statements on the Ukrainian Situation Dimitra Dwelley St. Lawrence was known for his gift of prophecy, especially concerning events surrounding the end of the world and the coming of Antichrist. His words have striking significance for us today. Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “Sorrows and persecutions lead us to God” Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “Sorrows and persecutions lead us to God” What is essential to remember for a Christian who is being persecuted? Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil and Kremenets has answered the questions of the Pravlife.org portal. Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church The elder shared his concern about the events in the Ukraine. Комментарии © 1999-2015 Православие.Ru При перепечатке ссылка на Православие.Ru обязательна Контактная информация Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Сети богословия Тема недели: Почитание мощей в православии Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Мнение Мнение Статья Статья Статья Новые материалы 1 января Unique Turkic-language Arabic-alphabet Gospel found in Bashkortostan 20 октября 2012 20:00 – 1 января 1970 03:00 События Researchers at Bashkortostan " s national library have found a rare edition of the Gospels in the archives of religious Turkic-language Arabic-spelt books, the Zaki Validi National Library said on its website. The rare Gospel was discovered by researchers from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department in an archive of 40,000 books. " It is a unique sample of Orthodox religious literature and a source for studying the Muslim people " s languages, published by Scottish missionaries back in the early 19th century, " Antonina Gezikova, the head of the library " s Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, was quoted as saying. The Gospel, discovered in the Ufa archives, was published in the Western-Kypchak version of the Turkic literary language, which is close to the Karachai-Balkar and other Western Kypchak vernaculars, she said. " The translation is very interesting and differs strongly from all translations dating back to the early 19th century, " she also said. Gezikova said that at the start of the 19th century Russian Emperor Alexander I allowed Western European missionaries to do their missionary work among the Muslim ethnic groups in the North Caucasus. In 1802, the Scottish Missionary Society obtained permission to open a mission near Aul Karras Syltanayu outside Beshtau-Pyatigorsk. Printing equipment was brought to the place in 1804, whose Arabic and Turkic printers were no worse than European ones. In 1815, the Scottish Missionary Society opened missions in Astrakhan and Orenburg. Four Scottish families settled in Astrakhan, where printing equipment arrived and a print house was set up, later named after missionary John Mitchell. " The books, brought out by the Mitchell Print House, are unique samples of Orthodox religious literature, and they are also a source for studying the Muslim people " s languages dating back to the early 19th century. The Edinburgh missionaries preserved unique data about the history and culture of Turkmens, Bashkir, Crimean and Astrakhan Tatars, Armenians, Kabardinians, Ossetians and Greeks, " she said. |
| Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Homily on the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) St. Nikolai Velimirovich Homily on the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) St. Nikolai Velimirovich But this event has more than historical significance; it also has a spiritual meaning, and therefore also a moral meaning for every modern-day Christian. According to the spiritual meaning, Jerusalem signifies the human soul, and the entry of the Lord into Jerusalem signifies the entrance of God into the soul. Homily on Palm Sunday St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) Homily on Palm Sunday St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) Here is another meaning of the colt of an ass. It is an image of every person who is led by irrational desires, deprived of spiritual freedom, attached to the passions and habits of fleshly life. Christ’s teaching looses the ass from its attachment; that is, from fulfilling its sinful and fleshly will. Комментарии Chrysostom 27 апреля 2016, 15:00 Fr. Dn. George P. Bithos, PhD.: Thank you for your correction of this important fact; indeed the person remains unidentified. Sometimes, theology is sacrificed for other motives, political and financial influence being some of them. Fr. Dn. George P. Bithos, PhD. 14 апреля 2014, 22:00 I write with some sadness that this explanation of the Hymn of Kasianne perpetuates the popular misconception that the " sinful " woman of the hymn is Kasianne. How very sad. The hymn, which is a masterpiece of Orthodox hymnography, was authored by our devote Mother in Christ Kasia, the abbess of a Convent in Constantinople. Not only was she not a sinful woman, she abandoned the world to seek a life of prayer and contemplation. She stands today as one of the few women hymnographers of the Church. The sinful woman of the Gospels is unidentified, yet her story of repentance is described with great understanding and passion by Mother Kasia writing in ninth century Byzantium. As we listen to the hymn we should allow its message and the poetry of Mother Kasia to help us on our journey through this Great and Holy Week and to the Joy of our Lord " s Resurrection. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: |
| Сети богословия Тема недели: Почитание мощей в православии Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Мнение Мнение Статья Статья Статья Новые материалы 1 января Миллс Уильям K, свящ. Профессиональные интересы: Пастырское богословие, История Церкви, Библеистика Конфессии: Православие Библиография работ автора: Encountering Jesus in the Gospels (Orthodox Research Institute, 2011) A 30-Day Retreat: A Personal Guide to Spiritual Renewal Called to Serve: Readings on Ministry from the Orthodox Church The Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian Our Father: A Prayer for Christian Living Orthodox Pastoral Service by Archimandrite Kyprian Kern translated by Mary Goddard with introduction by William C. Mills Books on the Orthodox liturgical calendar: From Pascha to Pentecost: Reflections on the Gospel of John Baptize All Nations: Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew for the Pentecost Season Prepare O Bethlehem: Reflections on Scripture for the Christmas-Epiphany Season A Light to the Gentiles: Reflections on the Gospel of Luke Let Us Attend: Reflections on the Gospel of Mark for the Lenten Season Feasts of Faith: Reflections on the Major Feast Days Награды: Fr. William C. Mills is an Orthodox priest of Charlotte, North Carolina and is the Rector of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Orthodox Church. He holds a PhD in Pastoral Theology from Union Institute and University, and specializes in scripture, spirituality, and ministry. He has taught theology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Queens University, and Holy Apostles Roman Catholic College and Seminary. He is the author of numerous essays, and book reviews that have appeared in America Magazine, Congregation Magazine, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Pro Ecclesia, Logos Journal, and Theological Studies. In Church, World and Kingdom: The Eucharistic Foundation of Alexander Schmemann " s Pastoral Theology, author William C. Mills analyzes the pastoral and Eucharistic theology of the world-renowned Eastern Orthodox priest, pastor, professor, seminary dean, theologian, and author, Alexander Schmemann. Schmemann " s theological legacy has influenced all levels of Church life. His books, articles, essays, and sermons are known world-wide and translated into numerous languages and have been referenced by theologians in the East and the West. William C. Mills expertly reminds us that for Alexander Schmemann, the scriptures, doctrine, faith, teachings, practices, and prayers of the Church are expressed and fully realized in the Eucharistic gathering. |
| Сети богословия Тема недели: Почитание мощей в православии Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Статья Мнение Мнение Статья Статья Статья Новые материалы 1 января Jerusalem tomb reveals first archaeological evidence of Christianity from the time of Jesus 26 марта 2012 14:35 – 1 января 1970 03:00 События The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or “bone boxes” that are engraved with a rare Greek inscription and a unique iconographic image that the scholars involved identify as distinctly Christian. The four-line Greek inscription on one ossuary refers to God “raising up” someone and a carved image found on an adjacent ossuary shows what appears to be a large fish with a human stick figure in its mouth, interpreted by the excavation team to be an image evoking the biblical story of Jonah. In the earliest gospel materials the “sign of Jonah,” as mentioned by Jesus, has been interpreted as a symbol of his resurrection. Jonah images in later “early” Christian art, such as images found in the Roman catacombs, are the most common motif found on tombs as a symbol of Christian resurrection hope. In contrast, the story of Jonah is not depicted in any first century Jewish art and iconographic images on ossuaries are extremely rare, given the prohibition within Judaism of making images of people or animals. The tomb in question is dated prior to 70 CE, when ossuary use in Jerusalem ceased due to the Roman destruction of the city. Accordingly, if the markings are Christian as the scholars involved believe, the engravings represent – by several centuries – the earliest archaeological record of Christians ever found. The engravings were most likely made by some of Jesus’ earliest followers, within decades of his death. Together, the inscription and the Jonah image testify to early Christian faith in resurrection. The tomb record thus predates the writing of the gospels. |
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