Протоиерей Константин Смирнов - Раннехристианские отцы Церкви. часть 2 из 2 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

In the sacrament of the wedding in one of the prayers, there are remarkable words: "Prayers of parents affirm the foundations of houses." The foundation of our house, which is the Holy Church, is the blood and prayer of the martyrs. These are the first centuries of Christianity. This is what seems to be very far from us - and that which is very close; The one without which we cannot be and realize ourselves, as Christians, as members of the Church of Christ. The appeal to this foundation of our Church is so reverent for us so much, multi -valued, instructive; It is necessary for us to strengthen the spiritual, to understand the right path of the spiritual. Reads Archpriest Konstantin Smirnov.

In the program “Early Christian Fathers of the Church”, we dared to touch our common church foundation and record these truly precious texts: “The teachings of the Twelve Apostles”, and the works of the apostolic husbands, and the works of apologists - the first defenders of Christianity, and, of course, fragments of the works of the Holy Irenaeus of Lyon, the founder of Christian dogma, as if the connecting century, the Apostles and the patronage of the century. No wonder the epigraph to the whole cycle we chose his words: “What happened at that time, I remember more lively than recently what happened. What we heard in childhood increases with the soul and root in it ... ”So he recalls his meetings with the holy Polikarp Smirnsky, a student of the apostle John the Theologian, in turn, the beloved disciple of Christ himself; So he emphasizes the importance of this direct spiritual succession and the need for constant appeal to the origins, roots, “childhood” of Christianity ...

And this cycle completes - not chronologically, but the meaning of the inspired anthem “On Easter” of St. Meliton of Sardia, for the “sacrament of Easter”, which he writes about, is the main “secret of Christianity”, this is the main joy and hope of all early Christian writers what their works are devoted to.