11/20/2011
The Cross is the measure of the bounds of love—by the height of heaven, the depth of the earth, and the length and breadth of the universe.
What does his cross mean? Why is his [our] cross, that is, the separate cross of each person, called also the Cross of Christ?
Metropolitan Platon (Levshin)
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We possess the qualities of creatures both material and immaterial, and I can say that although the Creator has given us the greater ascetic struggle because of these nearly opposite natures, we are nevertheless obliged to preserve a precise balance between them, so that by observing what is natural to the body we do not violate the demands of the soul; and by protecting the soul’s privilege, we do not neglect the needs of the body.
