ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Living
orthodox therapeutics – help our fellow human beings
This
is when orthodox therapeutics has its role and say. This
is when we, orthodox Christians, living in a globally established
terrorism and brutalization and despair, must have our eyes open and
learn properly how to live Orthodoxy and apply its therapeutic
method. We must be spiritually healthy internally, in order to be
able to offer a helping spiritual hand to our fellow human beings,
who live in this inhumane world and constantly reach out for our
help.
Our
contemporary Saint Paisios of the Holy Mountain said: “People will
be coming to you and draw you by the sleeve of your shirt and ask you
to talk to them about Christ!”
And
I ask you, my brethren, what will we say to them about Christ? How
about that: “Take
a look at our beautiful cassocks, holy garments and the beautiful
churches and icons?”…!!!
No.
Those things mean absolutely nothing to them. These will not attract
them, but the healing of the soul, which will be offered from within
Orthodoxy! They do have their own such externally beautiful objects
and artwork already, which they venerate as idols, by the way. So,
Orthodoxy cannot win them to Christ by offering them new idols, as
any ordinary religion would do.
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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