Fr. Christopher Rocknage
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
"So often, my dear brother and sisters, we forget about the fact that it’s not about me, it’s not about any of us, individually—it’s about Christ redeeming the world. Yes he came for me, yes he came for you—He came for everybody, the entirety of creation, to bring all things to the knowledge of the Truth, to bring everything to Himself, so that all could be saved."
St. Leo the Great
The Father was indeed present in the Son, and in the Lord's brightness, which He had tempered to the disciples' sight, the Father's Essence was not separated from the Only-begotten: but, in order to emphasize the two-fold personality, as the effulgence of the Son’s body displayed the Son to their sight, so the Father's voice from out the cloud announced the Father to their hearing.
Dr. Christopher Veniamin
A study of his sermon reveals the saint understood the light of Transfiguration as a manifestation of divinity—consistent with Orthodox theology as later more fully elucidated.
Priest George Maximov, Oleg Kozhin
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 9
"After becoming Orthodox I felt the grace of God. I understood what the touch of the Holy Spirit is. The real touch of the Holy Spirit, not some kind of mystical feeling or some self-deception. "
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Secularism is not the rejection of God, but the assertion that the world exists apart from God and that our task is to do the best we can in this world.