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Our Purpose |
"We
cannot see the Church as a sort of aesthetic perfection and
limit ourselves to aesthetic swooning – our God given
freedom calls us to activity and struggle. And it would be
a great lie to tell searching souls: ‘Go to church,
because there you will find peace.’ The opposite is
true. She tells those who are at peace and asleep: ‘Go
to church, because there you will feel real alarm about your
sins, about your perdition, about the world’s sins and
perdition.
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There you will feel an unappeasable
hunger for Christ’s truth. There instead of lukewarm
you will become ardent, instead of pacified you will become
alarmed, instead of learning the wisdom of this world you
will become foolish for Christ. It is to this foolishness,
this folly in Christ, that our freedom calls us … And
we will become fools for Christ, because we know not only
the difficulty of this path but also the immense happiness
of feeling God’s hand upon what we do.”
St. Maria Skobtsova |
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