Q: Monogram Initial Notebook with Purple floral design

Agápa, v I-V vekah n. e. - vechernee sobranie hristian dlya molitvy i vkusheniya pischi, soedinyonnoe s vospominaniyami ob Iisuse Hriste. Odnim iz glavnyh duhovnyh osnovanij etomu iznachalno bylo ispolnenie zapovedi Hrista o lyubvi (dr. -grech. ἀγάπη, proiznositsya agape), i ne pozdnee 60-70 goda slovom αγάπη stali nazyvat i samo eto sobranie. Agapy rannih hristian predpolagali sovershenie Evharistii: v podrazhanie Tajnoj vechere, oni sobiralis vecherom. Po sovershenii tainstv agapa perehodila zatem v obychnuyu vecheryu, t. e. uzhin; eto takzhe nazyvalos "vecherya Gospodnya" (dr. -grech. κυριακὸν δεῖπνον). Pozzhe evharistiya byla ot vecheri otdelena, no traditsiya sobiratsya vecherami dlya bratskogo obscheniya ne prervalas, i nazvanie "agapy" za etimi obschimi vechernimi trapezami sohranilos. Sovremennaya Grecheskaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov nazyvaet agapoj vechernyu v pervyj den Pashi. Obychaj hristosovatsya vo vremya etoj sluzhby vyzyvaet vospominaniya o rannehristianskih agapah, kotorye "predstavlyali dvoyakoe obschenie, s Gospodom i bratskoe drug s drugom".

This book, "Agapy ili Vecheri lyubvi v drevnehristianskom mire", by P.N. Sokolov, is a replication of a book originally published before 1906. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.