5/13/2023 0 Comments An extraordinary union![]() ![]() “What harm have we done to you Greeks? Why do you hate those who follow the word of God, as if they were the worst villains?” asks Tertullian, a second-century apologist-that is, a defender of the faith-of the accusers of the Christians. Our predecessors, the Christians of the first centuries, were accused by the crowds through rumors of sins completely inconceivable to us. Now you and I, dear brothers and sisters, are accused of various oddities and vices, but quite often it is rightly pointed out that we are disciples of Christ in name only, and with our lives, alas, not only do we not preach Christ the Savior, but it may even seem as if we are striving to undermine His good works altogether. Christianity, the religion of the cities, the religion of the educated and the sophisticated, has always received censure and blasphemy from the faceless crowd and from anonymous public opinion, from the powerful and the wise of this world. It is difficult for the ignorant, inconvenient for the indolent and the conformists, and simply put, incomprehensible to those who do not want to understand it. Orthodox Christianity is a difficult, uncomfortable and incomprehensible faith. ![]() ![]() In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! ![]()
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