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In a human thinking, hard affected by the indifference to soul, we want to bring into focus the Church vision about veneration of Chris icon and its impact on our days. The basic characteristic of the Orthodox Church is the use and veneration of the holy icons of Jesus Christ, the Theotokos and the Saints. The people praying in front of the icons feel that they are engaged in a live personal dialogue with the portrayed Saints of God. The icon can be paralleled as the God-loving interpreter of this dialogue and the...

Illness and suffering are closely related to post-Adamic human existence. Orthodox spirituality teaches us that God never allows suffering beyond endurance. Present suffering is also proportional with one's personal sins or virtues. So that the most afflicted ones either the most sinful or the most righteous. Thus man discovers that meaning of suffering is that of partaking of the passions of Christ and then suffering becomes a ladder ascending towards heaven. The Mystery of the Holy Unction shares grace healing o...

The world was created very good (Genesis 1: 31), since it no evil affected its existence, reality due to God alone, who wanted that world to be a place of communion between Himself and human being. Perfection heavenly of man gave it the opportunity to join with God, because in his nature were present all virtues as natural attributes of his primordial nature. The problem of human being constitutes focus of theologians and scientists who exhibit an intense concern about the human constitution to determine the statu...