A THOUGHT ON THE ETHICS OF SAINT NAUM’S MIRACULOUSNESS AND ON THE NATIONAL SPIRIT

Abstract

Starting from the fact that it is not enough to just get rid of evil, but that the essence
is to get away from the evil and get the evil away, and you can only do that when
you start doing good, seemly to man as a temple of God - it becomes clear why and how
an ethics of practical action, as is the case with St. Clement from Ohrid, grows into an
ethics of spiritual shaping of the space and the people where they live. That St. Clement
manages this, there is a proof in the case of St. Naum, so it should come as no surprise
that in addition to being proclaimed a saint, he is more often called a "miraculous".
One can become a "miraculous" when a certain group declares certain "healings"
as a miracle of God, or when, understanding the ethics of his teachers Cyril and
Methodius, but above all Clement’s, they become the starting point for creating a space
in which man will come up to what the man is doing – a spiritual space in which he
will find himself opening up to the Spirit. At the same time, without violating the identity
of God, monastic or canonical, and opening space for building churches the walls of
which will give space for anticipatory commentary on the world, but also space for
those who will enter them by looking at the frescoes, the icons, listening to the word of
God, come to themselves as a temple of God, but universally ethically constructed – is
the result that confirms this ethics of miraculousness, the ethics of the people's spirit.
Such an ethical qualification of Naum's life result is also the subject of analysis of this
text.