To Be a Member of the Church | St. Justin Popovic Textured Design | Orthodox Ecclesiology | Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeIn the divine human organism of the Church every believer is like a living cell that becomes an integral part of it, and lives with wonderworking, divine human power. For to be a member of the Church means: to become incarnated with the God man, to share His body (Eph. 3: 6), to become an organic part of His divine human body (Eph. 5: 3, 1 Cor. 12: 12 13), in a word: to become divine human in the entire reality of ones human personality. + St. Justin

the Bridegroom comes

let us pray to the Lord

where the Apostles still remained in dismay

I hymn the sufferings of Thee Who suffered and hast delivered me from the passions

acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness

For it is not my desire to act towards you as a man-pleaser

*Another translation here is “Orient

You must not be greatly troubled about many things

The hour the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles at Pentecost (Acts 2:15)

my great army which I sent among you

- Canon of Pascha

O invincible champion of my passionate soul