Surplice Figure
What is the name of the surplice?
From the Greek, means clothing smooth, straight, like exactly and directly write poetry. .
What is the spiritual meaning of the surplice?
The Ministry of the deacon and the lower Ministers of the Church, the clerk who wear the surplice, as an auxiliary service of the priest and Bishop, depicts the ministering angels of the Lord I. Christ during His earthly life, eg. in the gospel of His birth, in the garden of Gethsemane, etc. therefore, the value of the ALB eats an indication of angelic Ministry after him, and shining, or bright and white as he has always been done in ancient times, the tunic resembles those shiny and white robes, which were visited by angels during the resurrection and ascension of the Lord. In respect of the qualities themselves is sacred and carbonochloridic white and bright view of its surplice means of angelic purity and chastity, wherewith must Shine allcauses him to adequately perform their angelic Ministry, and probably Express the joy with which the work must begin and begin they to their great service: what is indicated by the words readable when clothed in the ALB *).
*) "My soul shall rejoice in the Lord: obleke for me a robe of salvation and clothing of fun odelay me...."
What is podriznik? (Podriznik of the image see above.)
What does the wearing of a surplice under the name of podrasnica priests and bishops? •
What they like and deacons and the clerk, only the highest are servants of God and reached this highest degree not only as having passed all lower.
What is the significance of podriznik?
That, too, and the surplice, that is, it points to the angelic Ministry which bears on those garments, which were visited by angels during the resurrection and ascension of the Lord, in purity and chastity, which should have vested in him.
