Saint John the Baptist

Via Peregrina No. I (XV) / 2023 The River Jordan – Our Epiphany Theodora Videscu

The article describes the geography and sacred history of the Jordan Valley, from the river’s source in northern Israel to the Dead Sea, with a focus on the original site of the Lord’s Baptism, Betabara, and the Jordan River Procession at Qasr al-Yahud. It explores monastic traditions, the Romanian Hermitage on the Jordan, the miracle of the river’s reversal, and the theological significance of the Epiphany.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XII) / 2021 ‘Proroc’ or ‘prooroc’? Lecturer, PhD Octavian Gordon

This article analyses the etymology and evolution of the words ‘proroc’ and ‘prooroc’ in Church Romanian, demonstrating that the trisyllabic form arose through a dual false etymology — one popular and the other scholarly — through the contamination of the Church Slavonic ‘proroc’ with the Greek ‘prooratikos’. The two forms coexist legitimately in both ecclesiastical and secular literature, alongside the neologism ‘profet’, which entered the language via Latin and Neo-Latin channels in the 19th century.

Colloquium No. I (V) / 2018 Interview with Archimandrite Athanasius Prodromitus, Abbot of the Romanian Prodromu Skete on Mount Athos (II) Rev. Dr. Ștefan Zară, Monk Gherasim Prodromitul

This article presents the spiritual life and monastic order of the Prodromu Skete on Mount Athos, under the abbotship of Father Petroniu, and their continuation by his successor. It describes in detail the principles of the community – the liturgical programme according to the Typikon of Saint Sava, the daily duties, weekly confession and the abbot’s way of life – as well as the process of electing the new abbot and the spiritual and administrative challenges facing the skete.

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