ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
All
those who are not Orthodox -even if they insist calling themselves
Christians- have lost the therapeutic treatment. No reference on
human therapy can ever be found among those who are heretics (Latins,
Papists, Protestants, Mormons etc., although calling themselves
Christians), and heretics means they have left the Orthodox Church.
They have simply lost it; they have distanced themselves far away
from this tradition, and they do not think in an orthodox way anymore
(as far as the healing of the human nous is concerned).
Here
lies the difference of Orthodoxy from all other religions-dogmas. No
other religion talks about a therapy, like the one to be truly found
in the Orthodox Church. In all our liturgical greetings our Christ is
referred as "the Physician
(doctor) of our souls and bodies". He is our doctor, He is our
Healer (Therapist). If we look up in the papist and protestant
tradition, nowhere is our Christ mentioned as “Physician of souls
and bodies”. This is to be found only in the Orthodox tradition,
because only there can any soul be healed!
The
Greatness of our Saint Constantine and all Byzantine Emperors
Let
us allow for a historical parenthesis, in order to track down the
greatness of the so-called Byzantine emperors. And we say the
so-called Byzantine,
because they were actually never called Byzantine; they were called
Romioi, Roman Emperors. But this is another story, and, for the
moment, we will not touch on it (on how we ended up be called
Byzantine).
However,
these emperors (Great Constantine, Great Theodosius and many others)
are Great indeed, because they figured out what Orthodoxy means. They
realized that Orthodoxy is something else; She is not a religion, but
THE therapy of man! This is why Orthodoxy produces righteous citizens
and socially decent people. So, the emperors (Great Constantine and
the rest) thought: "This is the type of citizen we wish to have
in our state", and they embraced Orthodoxy and introduced Her as
the official Religion of the whole empire.
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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