"The act of laying on of hands has amazed me, I was beaten to sweat me, made me almost lose track of everything going on around me."
a young man, Floreski not had the chance to approach the priest of his country. Indeed, the only "religion" to which was introduced by his parents was the same family, within which there was only one "priest": his father, a servant lover paradise without God family. However we far enough to observe that unknown man of the Church, after the liturgy, distributed the blessed bread to be invaded by a holy fear and irresistible curiosity.
When, after a long period of soul searching, Florenski, and professor of philosophy at the Theological Academy, decided to become a priest, his reaction was negative. But with his election had restored the ancient tradition of the paternal family, which in the past had given the Orthodox Church many priests in the diocese of Kostroma. Also why he lived his ordination, on April 24, 1911, as a return to the "homeland." Recalling that day the priest shall write to neo Rozanov, "an inner world inexpressible, ineffable, incomprehensible to myself has flooded the soul, heart, body. Outwardly it's all as before: I get irritated, get angry, I was unhappy. But deep in my soul is as if this event, this achievement, its purpose has nested and is now maturing into a new life. I feel to be back to my roots. "
Florenski not exercise his ministry in parish. What attracted you to the priesthood was something else: to live in the celebration of worship, the unique experience the encounter between "two worlds" standing on the altar and there, like a powerful central vertex, attend the actual decrease of God to the world and together the real rapture of the visible reality his idea: The sky. "It's like the sensible elements of reality were destroyed by the storm that fell on him, bent at an incomprehensible force, dismembered and reassembled to be reunited in new signs yet undecipherable, never-before-seen world of mystery," said a day students. I did not know that a few years later, because of the persecution of the Church ministers may not hold over the Divine Liturgy. The fact is, however, you are never far from the mystique of the priestly soul, which was now transformed as the "spiritual center of his personality, the sun that illuminates all his gifts" (Bulgakov) and allow you to focus on the difficult trials of life.
La Nuova Europa
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