“St John of Rila, who called on Christians to preserve unity, avoid divisions, and resist greed
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“St John Chrysostom reminds us, however, that true wealth is that of the soul purified of the passions and filled with grace, and that the poorest person who is at peace in Christ is richer than an emperor troubled by the passions. Your common aspiration, regardless of the continent on which you live, for a better future finds its complete fulfilment only when that future includes communion with God.
“St John Chrysostom reminds us, however, that true wealth is that of the soul purified of the passions and filled with grace, and that the poorest person who is at peace in Christ is richer than an emperor troubled by the passions. Your common aspiration, regardless of the continent on which you live, for a better future finds its complete fulfilment only when that future includes communion with God.
“St John Chrysostom calls the family a little church, the place where prayer, forgiveness and self-sacrifice are learnt before they are lived out in society.
“St John Chrysostom calls the family a little church, the place where prayer, forgiveness and self-sacrifice are learnt before they are lived out in society.
“Let us therefore contemplate the lives and conduct of all these saints and, as St John of Damascus exhorts us, let us imitate their faith, love, hope, zeal, life, steadfastness in suffering and endurance unto blood, so that we too may share with them in the crowns of glory
“the primatial feat of His Beatitude Onuphrius, his courageous stand for the purity of Orthodoxy, and his unwavering faithfulness to the Truth of Christ, which, in the words of the hierarch, serve as a lofty example for the entire Orthodox world
“No matter how hard enemies and ‘friends’ may try, I am convinced there is a line His Beatitude Onuphry will never cross. He will not buy temporary peace at the price of departing from the canonical order of the Church, nor will he call something ‘the salvation of the Church’ if it destroys its unity. This is not stubbornness. It is faithfulness to Christ and the responsibility of a Primate before God for the Church entrusted to him
“they had prayed for the Orthodox Church and their peoples, asking God to preserve them “in faith, unity of mind and love,” despite the challenges facing contemporary society
