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În prealabil postat de Raoul
E o informatie oficiala a Bisericii sau e parerea ta strict subiectiva?
Daca ar fi sa fac un exercitiu de imaginatie imagine bradului as putea-o asocia cu alte mii de obiecte. Deci tot nu m-ati convins. Si repet,vreau sa vad pozitia Bisericii cu privire la acest subiect,nu ce va debiteaza voua mintea,texte kilometrice,povesti,legende si alte tampenii. V-am spus ca eu deja am vb. cu un monah de la manastire si pozitia lui a fost cat se poate de ferma!
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Raoul, nu exista o "teologie" a pomului de Craciun exprimata in Biserica, daca asta astepti sa gasesti. Sfintii Parinti, sfintii Bisericii, ierarhii si teologii, nu au teologhisit pe marginea bradului. Nici nu aveau cum sa o faca, pentru ca altele sunt problemele fundamentale ale vietii omului in Hristos.
Dar toti acestia ne indemna sa avem o perspectiva teologica asupra creatiei si omului. Or bradul, o fi el incarcat de simbolisme pagane si oculte, forma lui cine stie unde ne mai trimite cu gandul, dar la origine este parte a creatiei lui Dumnezeu. Bradul poarta in sine ratiunile sale dumnezeiesti. Asta nu inseamna ca Dumnezeu a creat bradul ca noi sa-l impodobim. Dar nici nu inseamna ca noi gresim impodobindu-l cu gandul la Hristos si la Nasterea Sa.
De aceea, bradul de Craciun poate fi inteles in Biserica prin mai multe chei ermineutice. Un astfel de inteles bisericesc ( aflat in legatura cu Hristos) al pomului de Craciun l-am intalnit la Preasfintitului Hieroteos Vlachos (in engleza, din pacate):
I suspect that the custom of decorating a tree at Christmas time is not simply a custom which came to us from the West and which we should replace with other more Orthodox customs. To be sure, I have not gone into the history of the Christmas tree and where it originated, but I think that it is connected with the Christmas feast and its true meaning.
First, it is not unrelated to the prophecy of the Prophet Isaiah:
"There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots" (Is. 11:1). St. Cosmas the Poet had this prophecy in mind when he wrote of Christ as the blossom which rose up out of the Virgin stem from the stump of Jesse. The root is Jesse, David’s father, the rod is King David, the flower which came from the root and the rod is the Theotokos. And the fruit which came forth from the flower of the Panagia is Christ. Holy Scripture presents this wonderfully. Thus the Christmas tree can remind us of the genealogical tree of Christ as Man, the love of God, but also the successive purifications of the Forefathers of Christ. At the top is the star which is the God-Man (Theanthropos) Christ.
Then, the Christmas tree reminds us of the tree of knowledge as well as the tree of life, but especially the latter. It underlines clearly the truth that Christ is the tree of life and that we cannot live or fulfill the purpose of our existence unless we taste of this tree, "the producer of life". Christmas cannot be conceived without Holy Communion. And of course as for Holy Communion it is not possible to partake of deification in Christ without having conquered the devil when we found ourselves faced with temptation relative to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, where our freedom is tried.
We rejoice and celebrate, because "the Tree of Life blossomed from the Virgin in the cave".
Excerpt from the book titled*The Feasts of the Lord: An Introduction to the 12 Feasts and Orthodox Christology, 1993.