DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK "APOSTOLIC PROVISIONS"
/POPIS DIELA „APOŠTOLSKÉ USTANOVENIA“/

Stefan SAK

associate professor, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Presov, Masarykova 15, 08001 Presov, Slovakia, stefan.sak@unipo.sk, 00421517724729, ORCID: 0000-0003-3067-2476

Abstract

The paper is devoted to a liturgical-historical perspective on the prayer that is read on the eighth day after the birth of a child. Associated with this is the ecclesiastical naming of the child. The prayer in question reveals the sealing and naming of the child on the eighth day after birth. The Church, as a good and caring mother, takes the child under her protection in the name of Jesus Christ and marks him with the sign of the cross, the sign of Christ's victory and power, and prepares him to receive baptism and subsequent incorporation into the Church.

Keywords

Divine Liturgy, Eucharist, divine service, Holy Sacrament, Church, Salvation, Blessing

SUMMARY

The whole liturgical and sacral life of the believers is focused around the Last Supper. It is the centre of an everyday spiritual life within the Church which is the meaning and the aim of human existence. The divine Liturgy and foremost the Eucharist have stimulated the interest of believers as well as of many theologians for centuries. It truly is the centre of liturgical and sacral life of the Church.

(Language: slovak)

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