In the collection of teachings "Zlatoust“On the second and third weeks of Great Lent, the teachings of St. Gregory the Theologian on the Holy Divine Liturgy and St. John Chrysostom on Holy Communion are posted. During the days of fasting, for our readers we present soulful reading about the most important sacraments of the Church.
Notes on Liturgy and the Church
Author:
Fudel Sergei Iosifovich Publisher: Russian Way
Familiar to several generations of readers from samizdat, the works of the religious writer Sergei Iosifovich Fudel (1900–1977), who experienced many years of persecution during the years of Soviet power, did not remain just monuments of the bygone samizdat era and are being republished today in different languages in different countries. For many, meeting with Fudel’s books became a turning point in their lives, prompting them to follow Christ. In the book “Notes on Liturgy and the Church,” S. I. Fudel continues to develop the circle of his cherished thoughts about the essence of the Church, which is fully manifested in its main sacred rite - the Divine Liturgy. The meaning of the liturgy remained poorly understood for many of the author’s contemporaries - even for those of them who had already accepted Christianity in their minds and hearts, but were not brought up in the sense of the liturgy as a sacrament of “a blessed and loving eternity, warm, like a mother’s womb,” and were not accustomed to breathing “ the air of a completely different world." By addressing them, Fudel seeks to share knowledge of the spiritual and symbolic meaning of church worship.
