The Fruitfulness of the Eucharist Offered for the Living and the Dead According to Isaac of Nineveh Based on His Discource XI from the Third Collection
Jan Witold Żelazny
Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-0639
Abstract
In the recently published Mistic treatises of St. Isaac of Nineveh, a passage appeared in Collection III raising the rarely analyzed contemporary issue of the fruitfulness of the Eucharistic Sacrifice offered for the living and the dead. For St. Isaac, this Sacrifice benefits all members of the Church, except for one group, the heretics who reject the truth of Christ's Presence in the Eucharist. Such a view, clearly valuing orthodoxy, recognizing human weakness as a non-excludable element from the Church community, turns out to be, by comparison with other works from this cultural circle /Letters of Timothy I and Dialogue with a Jew by Sergius Stylites) widespread and emphasizing the role of orthodoxy, the preservation of which gives every member of the Church a share in the saving sacrifice of Christ made present in the Eucharist, both during life and after death.
Keywords:
Izaak of Niniveh, Eucharist, sacrifices, ChurchReferences
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Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków
ks. dr hab. Jan W. Żelazny, Kierownik Katedry Patrologii na UPJP II. doktoryzował się z patrologii greckiej (Jan Chryzostom), habilitacja z eklezjologii syryjskiej (Biskup Ojcem. zarys ekezjologii syryjskiej na podstawie Konstytucji Apostolskich, Kraków 2006). Specjalizuje się w patrologii orientalnej (Język syriacki, czyli syryjski dialekt języka aramejskiego). wśród autorów, obok znanych jak Efrem czy Afrahat, w kręgu jego zainteresowań są pisarze Kościołów przedchalcedońskich. autor "Zarysu Literatury Patrystycznej kręgu języka syryjskiego, Kraków 2011, tłumacz tekstów syriackich (Tymoteusz I, Listy I- VIII, Kraków 2015)
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