Chapter Six: Holidays, fasting, and individual prayer
(The true goal of prayer is to enter into a dialogue with God. This dialogue is not limited to some hours during which a person prays. […]
(The true goal of prayer is to enter into a dialogue with God. This dialogue is not limited to some hours during which a person prays. […]
(He who was our visible Savior now dwells in the sacraments.) Leo the Great, Pope of Rome. The sacraments occupy a central place in Christian worship. He says:
(The Church is heaven on earth, and in it the God of heaven resides and works.) Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (died 733) Doctrine and Worship: It is narrated in (History
(Christ loved the church and gave himself for it) (Ephesians 5:25). (The church is one with the Lord. She is his body, his flesh, and his bones. The church is the vine.
(In his boundless love, God made himself as we are, in order to make us as he is)… Saint Irenaeus (died in the year
(Keep the deposit) (1 Timothy 6:20). (Holy Tradition is the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church).. Vladimir Lossky. The inner meaning of Holy Tradition: The history of Orthodoxy is distinguished externally
This book constitutes the second part of the book (The Orthodox Church) by Timothy Ware, which was published in English in 1963 and then reprinted.
I myself wonder about the reasons for writing this book and others, since I feel great anxiety when I dare to speak impudently.
Introduction to the second edition: In the sixties of the twentieth century, divine winds blew over the Church of Antioch, resulting in a flourishing literary and theological renaissance.