Duhovnost u kriznim epidemiološkim uslovima

Abstract

Spirituality can be important in various types of stress because it significantly contributes to a person's well-being, affects the overall quality of life and acts proactively, accelerating person's cognitive development by seeking different answers to a new situation. With a retrospective view of the spiritual and creative space at the time of COVID, we can say that this is a period of increased self-actualization of people, in which they manifested their absolute potentials as individuals. Although COVID left people without liturgical celebrations in certain periods, the living space did not have to remain spiritually empty, since the faithful could express their spirituality through their own prayer in their homes. These were modified conditions in Christian spirituality, where prayers represent an ecclesiastical act that connects the praying person with the community, conditions in which participation of an individual in the prayer of the church community that keeps and nourishes Jesus' prayer was hindered. The newly-established conditions opened up specific mental states in which people turned their attention to various non-religious forms of spirituality close to them: writing poetry, reading, painting, composing music, and thus new creative/artistic opuses were created that marked and are still marking this period. The books and songs 'at the times of COVID' were created, which represent a living and lucid document of time and a personal, authentic comment of an individual on one of the most unusual situations in which humanity has found itself in the last few decades. Painting studios have become a kind of quarantine in which painters stand behind their easels and in which the art world lives, transferred to the canvas in various techniques, waiting for its first exhibition entitled: 'From the times of COVID'.