In this special episode, the first of a new series (Orthodox Icons Explained), Fr. John offers us an amazing insight into the Orthodox icon of the Nativity of Christ. Which are the earliest representations? What about the manger, the wise men or the shepherds? How rich in meaning is the Nativity icon!
Fr. Ioan Bizau is a senior lecturer of Iconography and Christian Art at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Location: Diocesan Museum of the Orthodox Metropolis of Cluj (Muzeul Mitropoliei Clujului)
Camera: Darius Echim
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Table of contents:
0:00 🎵”Christ is born”, by the Greek Byzantine Choir MAKRIS
1:09 The earliest representations
3:20 The ox and the donkey
5:13 🎵Romanian Christmas carol sung by the nuns of Durau Monastery, Romania
6:00 The manger – the Christian altar
8:11 The Kontakion of Holy Nativity
9:25 The cave
9:59 The tomb
11:00 🎵Vespers (Archdeacon Claudiu Grama), The Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral from Cluj-Napoca
11:20 The wise men
12:10 The shepherds
13:48 The three scenes of the icon of the Nativity
14:42 Joseph
16:10 🎵Romanian Christmas carol sung by the monks of the Monastery of St. Demetrios, Sighisoara, Romania
16:52 The washing of the Child
20:41 Credits
20:46🎵”Christ is born”, by Fr. Maximos of Vatopedi
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wonderful! thank you! -s
Fantastic video! Very insightful and yet easy to follow. Many blessings to all Orthodox in this blessed Nativity season!
🥀 M u l t u m e s c , elder Ioan . 🌹
God's fraternizing
with God-divorced-humankind
is the extreme act of Mercy.
and God's own
bovine and donkey
eased that all
start to happen.
A tremendous video. Thank you for uploading with such attention to detail on translating and time-stamping. It was also a good chance for me to practice my Romanian 🙏
Sărbători binecuvântate! 🙏❤🙏
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Why don't the Jews have a Nativity Scene if Yahweh had a son..?
🙏🏼Thank you for this.
Every Christmas and Easter Orthodoxy keeps giving us and teaching us the wonderful Church history that Christ has given us.
Glory to God!
☦️🙏🏼
Now let's tell you a story about a man named Jesus:
A god assaulted, by proxy,
inseminated a 'virgin' named Mary,
in order to bring his son incarnate into our world.
A cowardly action…
Mary and her fiance?,
….Joseph, had to travel to Bethlehem to register for the census.
There Mary gave birth to a son of a god.?
God put a star in the sky to guide people to the baby?
In a dream God told Joseph to take his family to Egypt.
Then this God stood by and watched as Herod killed thousands and thousands of babies in Israel
in an attempt to kill Jesus. (wow!)
As a man, God's son claimed that he was God incarnate: "I am the way, the truth and the life," he said.
This man performed many 'miracles'. He healed lots of sick people. He turned water into wine. These miracles prove that he is God? Miracles??
But he was eventually given the death sentence and killed by crucifixion.
His body was placed in a tomb.
But three days later, the tomb was empty.
And the man, alive once again but still with his wounds (so anyone who doubted could see them and touch them), appeared to many people in many places.
Then he ascended into heaven and now sits at the right hand of his god the father almighty, never to be seen again.
Today you can have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus.
You can pray to this man and he will answer your prayers.
He will cure your diseases, rescue you from emergencies, help you make important business and family decisions, comfort you in times of worry and grief, etc.
This man will also give you eternal life, and if you are good he has a place for you in heaven after you die.
The reason we know all this is because, after the man died, four people named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote accounts of the man's life. Their written attestations are proof of the veracity of this story.
This is the story of a Jesus. ""
Do you believe this story?
You are Delusional !!
However, …. any debate on this is useless,
since a god
needs to be proven – First.
Thank you so much for introducing the icons. As a protestant, these are precious materials to learn about and much appreciate for.
Lovely! Thank you, Fr. John.