Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
To love those who don’t love us, to do good to those who don’t do us good, to give to those from whom we don’t hope to receive in return—to be divine by the gift of Christ, to be like God by our cross.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Christ is our peace and His presence fills our souls with peace. Christ visits the penitent man.
Jesse Dominick
Scripture depicts history symbolically because God’s providence guides history symbolically.
Larisa Marsheva, Peter Sadikov
The texts for this feast are filled with numerous symbols that glorify the instrument of Christ’s victory over death, revealing the soteriological aspects of theology and speaking of the priceless gifts that believers have acquired through the salvific death of Jesus.
Elder Epiphanios (Theodoropoulos)
If it’s impermissible to denigrate the mission and work of clergy serving in the world (as well as of the zealots and bearers of gifts of grace from among the laity), it’s also impermissible to denigrate the mission and work of monks. The Church is led unerringly by the Holy Spirit.