Repere pastorale și liturgice în legătură cu realitatea morții. Un demers dialogal duhovnicesc adresat aparținătorilor persoanelor suferinde trecute la Do

Abstract

In the context of the furious amplification of bodily suffering against the background of the widening of the range of recognition of a list of diseases increasingly pressing for contemporary man, who is often racked by the projection of departure from this life and the despair of soul generated by the imminence of meeting God “in the mystery of death”, the present material aims to mirror some of the most important
coordinates that Orthodox theology shares as a universal value about the reality of death and the eschatological perspective. It is precisely the eschatological detail as the image that is created by faith in the Church’s act of worship that becomes the key to overcoming any difficulties that each of us may experience in the inevitable condition of waiting for the final moment of this life. But this perspective is materialized starting from the liturgical text contained in the Church’s Book of Worship, where a series of aspects are highlighted which become so many ways of pastoral care available to the contemporary priest in his relationship with the suffering person, as well as with his relatives who feel the effects of the loss of a loved one most strongly, a reality which is strongly evident in the current social physiognomy, which has gone through so many trials that have each time generated a real sense of powerlessness in the face of illness
and death.