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  1 Pref   |        Christianity is imitation of Christ in the measure of His~humanity
  2 Pref   |           what is old” (Mt. 14:52). Christ’s words in the Gospel of
  3 Pref   |         monasticism on the basis of Christ, the Gospel, as well as
  4 Pref   |            Gospel leads to focus on Christ, the living center and foundation
  5 Pref   |          for service in the name of Christ. However, in Orthodox perspective,
  6 Pref   |         where the “new creation” in Christ blossoms by God’s grace.
  7 Intro,1|             trust that the words of Christ remain equally true for
  8 Intro,1|             in mortal opposition to Christ Himself.~ We find a different
  9 Intro,1|           among them are to: 1) put Christ and His Gospel at the center
 10 Intro,1|         because “wherever truth is, Christ is there.”[2] Father Hopko’
 11 Intro,2|            of this awesome claim is Christ Himself who said: “I am
 12 Intro,2|           person and saving work of Christ, the Apostles and Church
 13 Intro,2|              reflecting the mind of Christ. Nor is right practice (
 14 Intro,2|         living (bioma) according to Christ. “The standard (kanon) of
 15 Intro,2|    Christianity is the imitation of Christ (mimesis Chrestou),” writes
 16 Intro,2|         promoting the centrality of Christ and the Gospel? Are we applying
 17 Intro,2|             others? In imitation of Christ who came to save rather
 18 Intro,2|             and life in the name of Christ. In a free and open society,
 19 Intro,3|           The Church is the Body of Christ. The Church is wholly centered
 20 Intro,3|        Church is wholly centered on Christ and the Gospel, nurturing
 21 Intro,3|      witness to the new creation in Christ, an image of unity in love
 22 Intro,3|             or slave in the Body of Christ. We have the strength and
 23 Intro,3|          the wisdom and patience in Christ to discuss the issue of
 24 Intro,4|   celebration of the saving work of Christ, a festival of the new creation
 25 Intro,4|        challenge here, according to Christ’s teachings, is to foster
 26 Intro,5|            Saint John of Kronstadt. Christ commanded that we should
 27 Intro,5|           the message and spirit of Christ. Called to ascetic struggle
 28 Intro,5|          obedience in the spirit of Christ’s love, truth and righteousness.
 29 Intro,5|          the personal experience of Christ testified by love and humility —
 30 Intro,6|          true witness. It proclaims Christ and the Gospel in its fulness,
 31 Intro,6|            and to attract people to Christ, not merely to “Orthodoxy”
 32 Intro,6|          objectives in the light of Christ and the Gospel. We must
 33 Intro,6|           fulness of the mystery of Christ shining in the gifts of
 34 1,2    |             the earthly ministry of Christ as recorded in the Gospels,
 35 1,2    |          Gospels, and the person of Christ Himself, the Incarnate Word
 36 1,2    |          not his own but belongs to Christ.[6] All of recorded revelation,
 37 1,2    |         Gospels and the ministry of Christ. According to Saint John
 38 1,2    |         embraces the entire life of Christ from incarnation to ascension.
 39 1,2    |          the blessings flowing from Christ's earthly ministry:~ ~God
 40 1,2    |           the essential features of Christ's ministry. He concedes
 41 1,2    |     essential aspects and events of Christ’s ministry.~ Thirdly, Chrysostom
 42 1,2    |          the Gospel with the living Christ Himself. The person of Christ
 43 1,2    |       Christ Himself. The person of Christ is ultimately the essence
 44 1,2    |             combining the images of Christ as the Foundation and the
 45 1,2    |             interval between us and Christ. For if there~be any interval,
 46 1,2    |            then~merely keep hold of Christ, but let us be cemented (
 47 1,2    |           of intimate unity between Christ and Christians. He writes:~ ~
 48 1,2    |        Christians. He writes:~ ~He [Christ] brings us into unity be
 49 1,2    |            s jubilant confession to Christ: “Rabbi, you are the Son
 50 1,2    |            favorite themes — seeing Christ in the face of the poor
 51 1,2    |      Chrysostom it is the person of Christ who provides the secure
 52 1,2    |             one, and is centered on Christ, His incarnation, death
 53 1,3    |           progress of the Gospel of Christ. Even during the fourth
 54 1,3    |          pointing to what the risen Christ was doing in the very days
 55 1,3    |           that~opposes the faith of Christ is daily dwindling and weakening
 56 1,3    |         events, the resurrection of Christ and the pentecostal gift
 57 1,3    |        apostles, the assurance that Christ lives and the infusion of
 58 1,3    |            the Holy Spirit. Just as Christ is the primary figure in
 59 1,3    |         then, are a history of what Christ did and said; but the Acts,
 60 1,3    |     revelation, the resurrection of Christ and the gift of the Spirit,
 61 1,3    |            first homily on Acts. If Christ did not rise from the dead
 62 1,3    |             Gospel of the crucified Christ lacks either power or wisdom,
 63 1,3    |           in Saint Paul's own view “Christ [is] the power of God and
 64 1,3    |          nothing . . . except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor.
 65 1,3    |        where Saint Paul states that Christ sent him to preach the Gospel “
 66 1,3    |           wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.”
 67 1,3    |          had so little courage when Christ was with them during his
 68 1,3    |          Chrysostom concludes, that Christ arose, spoke to the apostles
 69 1,3    |            could not have imagined. Christ's resurrection is the great
 70 1,4    |         What can equal the mercy of Christ who shared His very nature
 71 1,4    |       suffering with many ills? Yet Christ works not by compulsion
 72 1,4    |           free will (autoexousion). Christ has done all His part —
 73 1,4    |             they be concerned about Christ's message which He brings
 74 1,4    |        freed from a “swinish life.” Christ instructed the disciples
 75 1,4    |          and teach the good news of Christ with greater fervor and
 76 1,4    |            and 7) the fulfilment of Christ's prophecy that the gates
 77 2,1    |            to cherish the Gospel of Christ as the very soul of the
 78 2,1    |           God's saving work through Christ and the Spirit, lived, celebrated,
 79 2,1    |          pointers to the mystery of Christ and the mystery of the Holy
 80 2,1    |         apostolic Gospel concerning Christ who “is the same yesterday
 81 2,1    |             by the apostles — Jesus Christ himself, crucified and risen (
 82 2,1    |    Testament plainly testifies that Christ is the essential content
 83 2,1    |          manifest, God's mystery of Christ, in whom are hid all the
 84 2,1    |             fullness of the mystery Christ embraces His Church as the
 85 2,1    |     historical and mystical body of Christ, vivified and guided by
 86 2,1    |          the apostles and prophets, Christ himself being the cornerstone —
 87 2,1    |              3:4-10). The Gospel of Christ, which is the foundation
 88 2,2    |           God's saving work through Christ. The liturgical tradition
 89 2,2    |           death and resurrection of Christ and exalts Him as “one of
 90 2,2    |           death and resurrection of Christ with a certain concentration
 91 2,2    |         well as the resurrection of Christ, the two being held together
 92 2,2    |             to Your Resurrection,~O Christ, glory to Your kingdom,
 93 2,2    |       rejoices saying: It is You, O Christ, who gives resurrection~
 94 2,2    |         praise Your resurrection, O Christ, our Savior. Make us on~
 95 2,2    |             and sweet Voice! You, O Christ, have truly promised that~
 96 2,2    |   resurrection. And so let us sing: Christ is risen from the dead,
 97 2,2    |           death and resurrection of Christ. It takes into comprehensive
 98 2,2    |      encompasses the entire life of Christ from conception to his glorious
 99 2,2    |          confession of Jesus as the Christ and Son of God, the veneration
100 2,2    |          part of the saving work of Christ by means of virtually hundreds
101 2,2    |     celebration of the good news of Christ.~ In addition, the liturgical
102 2,2    |   actualization of the good news of Christ and his saving work. An
103 2,2    |           the precious Body of Your Christ. Amen. And that which is
104 2,2    |          the precious~Blood of Your Christ. Amen. Changing (metabalon)
105 2,2    |          for the redemptive work of Christ. The centerpiece is the
106 2,3    |        people under the lordship of Christ, to draw them into the life
107 2,3    |     likeness of the new creation in Christ. The ministry of evangelization
108 2,3    |            and exalts the person of Christ heightening the awareness
109 2,3    |         phrases “Scripture alone,” “Christ alone,” “Gospel alone,”
110 2,3    |         alone,” “Scripture alone,” “Christ alone,” or “faith alone,”
111 2,3    |             doctrine, and councils. Christ and the Gospel were promoted
112 2,3    |           faith. They are called by Christ and the Spirit to dialogue
113 2,3    |            the sake of the glory of Christ and the potential unity
114 2,3    |            the Gospel is the living Christ, His saving work, and the
115 2,3    |       Gospel derives from the risen Christ and the pentecostal gift
116 2,3    |          conduct. According to him, Christ has done his part — he has
117 2,4    |         message of the whole Bible, Christ being its center. We have
118 2,4    |          Triune God, the mystery of Christ, the mystery of Pentecost
119 2,4    |    explicate the person and work of Christ as the self-disclosure of
120 2,4    |          the birth and childhood of Christ, but the adult Christ as
121 2,4    |            of Christ, but the adult Christ as the fullness of God on
122 2,4    |            on earth. The mystery of Christ’s divinity continues to
123 2,4    |      Christology; he is proclaiming Christ. He observes the expansion
124 2,4    |      According to Athanasios, it is Christ himself as One living and
125 2,4    |             through the ministry of Christ. And thirdly, the focus
126 2,4    |             on the reality of Jesus Christ as the eternal and pre-existent
127 2,4    |            on the adult ministry of Christ as the One who was fully
128 2,4    |            of a mystical union with Christ and a personal dwelling
129 2,4    |         divine and human natures of Christ, to which especially the
130 2,4    |         revelation of the incarnate Christ and the unity of his divine
131 2,4    |           believers are united with Christ as the branches are united
132 2,4    |         with God, the indwelling of Christ and the Spirit, as well
133 2,4    |          reflecting on the death of Christ, Athanasios himself uses
134 2,4    |            images. The sacrifice of Christ was to free humanity from
135 2,4    |            ransom for all. By dying Christ became a sufficient exchange
136 2,4    |           kingdom. On the contrary, Christ rewards each man according
137 2,4    |            To him who hungers after Christ grace is food; to him who
138 2,4    |       unexpectedly beheld the risen Christ in the radiance of His uncreated
139 2,4    |        became a zealous preacher of Christ and insisted that the very
140 2,4    |            the luminous presence of Christ, the burning fire of His
141 2,4    |            expounds the new life in Christ presenting “the truth from
142 2,4    |       Scriptures (p. 355) until, by Christ's luminous intervention,
143 2,4    |           who possessed the mind of Christ. He viewed his work as “
144 2,4    |             in conscious union with Christ and the Spirit, all are
145 2,4    |             from the Lord God Jesus Christ.[78]~ ~
146 2,5    |          truth has primacy, namely, Christ and the Gospel. We have
147 2,5    |       reality may allow the life in Christ to diminish in various aspects
148 3,1    |           reawaken to the Gospel of Christ, the core message of salvation.
149 3,2    |             identity as the Body of Christ. We have a rich spirituality
150 3,2    |          birth to personal faith in Christ, strengthens faith, energizes
151 3,2    |            communion with the risen Christ, and communicated with an
152 3,2    |            experience of union with Christ, nurtured by prayer and
153 3,2    |       focusing on the centrality of Christ, and connecting all that
154 3,2    |            we do in the parish with Christ, His saving work, and the
155 3,2    |      context — an ethos centered on Christ, filled with prayer, and
156 3,2    |            apprehend that the risen Christ is present in the Church
157 3,3    |            strong sense of unity in Christ, bound by love for Him and
158 3,3    |             of a new way of life in Christ backed up by the transforming
159 3,3    |          the joyous conviction that Christ was alive, that the Holy
160 3,3    |            is the work of the risen Christ Himself. He writes: “The
161 3,3    |        saving events of the life of Christ, and all the blessings flowing
162 3,3    |             assert that the gift of Christ, in terms of its beauty
163 3,3    |             love and forgiveness in Christ. They long to be part of
164 3,3    |          better way is to center on Christ, to refocus on the good
165 3,3    |         with the message with which Christ started, to repent and embrace
166 3,4    |              Parishioners know that Christ is God and Savior according
167 3,4    |           message to proclaim about Christ and the kingdom today —
168 3,4    |           embraced the good news of Christ and the kingdom for themselves
169 3,4    |        announces the work of God in Christ, it tells about God’s blessings
170 3,4    |           it the power of the risen Christ and the active presence
171 3,4    |        Christians. When the name of Christ is mentioned and praised,
172 3,4    |             s grace. They must love Christ, love the Scriptures, love
173 3,4    |           of the parish. Talk about Christ’s encounter with the Zacchaeus,
174 3,4    |      Orthodox theology teaches that Christ, the Gospel, the Church,
175 3,4    |            all the personal gift of Christ Himself through whom we
176 3,4    |             We need but to remember Christ’s words about the straight
177 3,4    |            on the Mount. The way of Christ is the way of the Cross.
178 3,4    |            Christian duties. Before Christ delivered the demands of
179 3,4    |            11:28). The blessings of Christ, His love and mercy, His
180 3,4    |         order to find (Mt. 7:7-11). Christ came to the world and shed
181 3,4    |             worship service, but to Christ Himself and to life with
182 3,4    |            beginning of the life in Christ.~ While we do not have altar
183 3,4    |             is the affirmation that Christ is true and reliable, both
184 3,4    |           is primarily obedience to Christ Himself evidenced by a stable
185 3,4    |             sense of communion with Christ, the risen and living Lord,
186 3,4    |              In the Gospel of John, Christ compares His relationship
187 3,4    |        sense of mystical union with Christ is found in Saint Paul who
188 3,4    |           wrote: “For me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). And again: “
189 3,4    |            have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live,
190 3,4    |           no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the
191 3,4    |       connection and communion with Christ can arise only from a disciplined
192 3,4    |             the mystical union with Christ, the source of the greatest
193 3,4    |         discourse specifically with Christ. Often one hears valuable
194 3,4    |     generosity in which the name of Christ is hardly mentioned. Little
195 3,4    |    mentioned. Little is heard about Christ Himself — His own love,
196 3,4    |        connect these treasures with Christ, to remind participants
197 3,4    |   participants of the centrality of Christ, and to celebrate the gift
198 3,4    |           tradition, seeks to bring Christ into the center of things
199 3,4    |        conscious awareness that the Christ of the Pantokrator icon
200 3,4    |          mission in the world. When Christ dwells in the hearts of
201 3,4    |           of God” and “the aroma of Christ to God” (2 Cor. 2:14-15).
202 3,4    |          the gospel of the glory of Christ” shining in the hearts of
203 3,4    |             not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves
204 3,4    |         glory of God in the face of Christ” (2 Cor. 4:5-6). Saint Paul
205 3,4    |    evangelical spirit — the love of Christ, the zeal to proclaim the
206 3,4    |             to see people coming to Christ and growing in Christ, the
207 3,4    |            to Christ and growing in Christ, the commitment to pray
208 3,4    |        burning faith that the risen Christ is His great love and mercy
209 3,4    |           of becoming the “aroma of Christ,” “the fragrance of the
210 3,4    |             shine with the light of Christ, then the local parish itself,
211 4,1    |           God’s saving work through Christ and in the Holy Spirit,
212 4,1    |             through the ministry of Christ and the gift of the Spirit
213 4,1    |            16-20 in which the risen Christ, speaking as a transcendent
214 4,2    |            mystery is the person of Christ in whom the Father is revealed
215 4,2    |          all authority to the risen Christ? It is God the Father in
216 4,2    |             radiates from the risen Christ. In His presence, the disciples
217 4,2    |    highlights the divine sonship of Christ, who is identified as the “
218 4,2    |             grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and
219 4,2    |         response to the ministry of Christ and the gift of the Spirit.
220 4,2    |         Israel, the Father of Jesus Christ, should be mentioned in
221 4,2    |                 and one Lord, Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 8:5-6). At the
222 4,2    |           person and saving work of Christ whom the early Christians
223 4,2    |         when he proclaims the risen Christ as Lord, the One who bears
224 4,2    |             to appeal to God and to Christ in the same breath attributing
225 4,2    |          exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things
226 4,2    |              and in one Lord, Jesus Christ . . . and in the Holy Spirit . . .”
227 4,2    |          salvation, they focused on Christ, His teaching and healing
228 4,3    |            For Matthew’s community, Christ’s commission to make disciples
229 4,3    |          were to join the Church of Christ about which the Lord had
230 4,3    |          and build up the Church of Christ. The great commission connects
231 4,3    |  appropriate to the new creation in Christ. Holy Trinity and holy community
232 4,3    |           laws.~ The saving work of Christ, His life, death and resurrection,
233 4,3    |       participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
234 4,3    |        participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread,
235 4,3    |           death and resurrection of Christ, and therefore of renewal
236 4,3    |           death and resurrection of Christ as saving events. The Christian
237 4,3    |             as the mystical body of Christ, in which there is no Jew
238 4,3    |            transform believers into Christ’s holy body.~ However, the
239 4,3    |          reality of new creation in Christ took hold among men and
240 4,3    |        became a living “letter from Christ . . . written not with ink
241 4,3    |       Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with
242 4,3    |           death and resurrection of Christ, is received through the
243 4,3    |     acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Pt 2:4-5).~ In a magisterial
244 4,3    |           and self-understanding is Christ Himself in His status and
245 4,3    |          their faith and union with Christ, Christians are made children
246 4,3    |             brothers and sisters of Christ, and joint heirs of God
247 4,3    |          being in relation to Jesus Christ and shares with him the
248 4,3    |      benefit, happens through Jesus Christ who lived and died as God’
249 4,3    |      adoption, our participation in Christ’s filial relation to the
250 4,4    |        fostered a sense of unity in Christ. The diverse of membership
251 4,4    |           was bound by its love for Christ and for each other as brothers
252 4,4    |           death and resurrection of Christ as events of redemption.
253 4,4    |          you hold it fast. . . that Christ died for our sins in accordance
254 4,4    |           cross and resurrection of Christ are the decisive events
255 4,4    |     includes the entire ministry of Christ — incarnation, teaching,
256 4,4    |    beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” (Mk 1:1).
257 4,4    |             gospel is the person of Christ himself, what God accomplished
258 4,4    |             the crucified and risen Christ.~ The Gospel is preached
259 4,4    |          and strengthening faith in Christ, of bringing people under
260 4,4    |            lives in the new life in Christ. Worship is a celebration
261 4,4    |           death and resurrection of Christ, is united with him, and
262 4,4    |             the crucified and risen Christ whom we receive through
263 4,4    |           focus of the good news is Christ and his redeeming work.
264 4,4    |            Gospel as “the Gospel of Christ” (Rom. 15:19; 1 Cor. 9:12;
265 4,4    |           the incarnation, and that Christ is the fullness of the presence
266 4,4    |                 that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to
267 4,4    |      Moreover, God’s saving work in Christ, and the blessings that
268 4,4    |       receiving the good news about Christ and new life in him is truly
269 4,4    |           in you” (Jn 14:20). Where Christ finds love and obedience,
270 5,1    |          unceasing struggle to walk Christ’s straight and narrow path,
271 5,1    |     spiritual center of our life in Christ, etymologically means the “
272 5,1    |       another and our whole life to Christ our God.” We also “lift
273 5,1    |             grace and power of God. Christ taught us to pray: “Thy
274 5,2    |          the Gospels emphasize that Christ practiced solitary prayer
275 5,2    |            Jn 6:15). At Gethsemane, Christ was sorrowful and distraught.
276 5,2    |            my spirit” (Lk. 23:46).~ Christ was fully God, one with
277 5,2    |             Father, the hallmark of Christ’s life and mission. The
278 5,2    |         Incarnation assures us that Christ’s life of prayer was as
279 5,2    |     mentions the enormous work that Christ accomplished through him (
280 5,2    |            29). He was a warrior of Christ ready to fight for the truth
281 5,2    |          prayer, indeed a mystic of Christ privileged with heavenly
282 5,2    |          him to a singular focus on Christ and life in union with Him.
283 5,2    |             say: “For me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21) and again: “
284 5,2    |           no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the
285 5,2    |          this is the will of God in Christ for you” and again asks, “
286 5,2    |            hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:4-7).~ ~The
287 5,2    |            a lover of the Gospel of Christ and a great admirer of Saint
288 5,2    |            mouth” (Chrysostomos) of Christ and the applied Gospel.
289 5,3    |           the precious Body of Your Christ. And that which is in this
290 5,3    |          the precious Blood of Your Christ.” All prayers, whether petitionary,
291 5,3    |  iconography features many icons of Christ painted in various styles.
292 5,3    |          icons the halo or crown of Christ is inscribed with the letters “
293 5,3    |    According to the Church Fathers, Christ was the “hidden” Revealer
294 5,3    |           the Old Testament. It was Christ, the eternal Logos of God,
295 5,3    |           New. In the New Testament Christ is revealed as Emmanuel — “
296 5,3    |            23). During His ministry Christ said to those who listened
297 5,3    |            of the age” (Mt. 28:20). Christ’s words are trustworthy.
298 5,3    |         call upon the name of Jesus Christ” (oi epikaloumenoi to onoma
299 5,4    |         blind man who called out to Christ “Son of David, have mercy
300 5,4    |            with a sublime vision of Christ radiant with the uncreated
301 5,4    |           abiding relationship with Christ.~ How do we come to know
302 5,4    |             most important Bread is Christ Himself who said not to
303 5,4    |            of the apostles. He whom Christ called “Rock,” nevertheless
304 5,4    |          the water and later denied Christ three times. Are not these
305 5,4    |            upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with
306 5,4    |            to the dramatic scene of Christ at Gethsemane. He prayed
307 5,4    |        report an explicit answer to Christ’s agonizing plea. Events
308 5,4    |        However, we can be sure that Christ knew inwardly that He had
309 5,4    |        salvation of the world. Thus Christ came out of the Gethsemane
310 5,5    |          stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). Interesting
311 5,5    |           covenant was fulfilled in Christ who embraced human nature
312 5,5    |           Paul, the new covenant in Christ is “written not with ink
313 5,5    |    Discourse (Jn, chaps. 13-17). As Christ anticipated His departure
314 5,5    |          home with him” (Jn 14:23). Christ told the disciples that
315 5,5    |            Lord. We are united with Christ in many ways: faith, love,
316 5,5    |             in union with the risen Christ. Saint Paul refers to it
317 5,5    |         glory of God in the face of Christ” which God shines in our
318 5,5    |        changed into the likeness of Christ from one degree of glory
319 5,5    |              The transfiguration of Christ, when His human nature was
320 5,5    |           expresses actual theosis. Christ’s transformation in glory
321 5,5    |         family, work and community. Christ, who was transfigured, also
322 6,1    |     Christian life is knowing Jesus Christ who became poor so that
323 6,1    |            s love for the world and Christ's glorious victory over
324 6,1    |       divine message: to know Jesus Christ through the power of the
325 6,1    |          Jesus Prayer — “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy
326 6,1    |          had a vision of the living Christ Himself. This was the decisive
327 6,1    |           Spirit to know~that Jesus Christ is God.[99]~ I brought nothing
328 6,1    |   exaltation followed his vision of Christ and his new birth by the
329 6,1    |            drawn to the humility of Christ. He received a richer illumination
330 6,1    |            humility and the love of Christ that I may offend no man
331 6,1    |             Paul, the ambassador of Christ who beseeched all to be
332 6,2    |             personally. Many beheld Christ in human form, but not all
333 6,2    |            now. Many may know about Christ but do not know Him by personal
334 6,2    |  distinguished between believing in Christ and knowing Christ. However,
335 6,2    |     believing in Christ and knowing Christ. However, he did not criticize
336 6,2    |           Christians. To believe in Christ is also a blessed thing,
337 6,2    |        Christian. Such knowledge of Christ is a gift of the Holy Spirit,
338 6,3    |             us into the likeness of Christ. By the Holy Spirit Christ
339 6,3    |          Christ. By the Holy Spirit Christ unites us with God and makes
340 6,4    |          spiritual worship of which Christ spoke. No form of activity
341 6,4    |       person who yearns to abide in Christ and to practice daily inward
342 6,4    |     invocation of the Name of Jesus Christ. This uninterrupted calling
343 6,4    |            has acquired the mind of Christ. This dynamic state of prayer
344 6,4    |          best to keep one's mind on Christ and avoid self‑conscious
345 6,5    |             accomplished warrior of Christ. He knew that spiritual
346 6,5    |         spoke of having the mind of Christ. This exactly is the goal
347 6,5    |              to acquire the mind of Christ. The inner man can allow
348 6,5    |           Christian quickly turn to Christ through inner prayer, such
349 6,6    |          was drawn more and more to Christ's humble, self‑emptying
350 6,6    |          single soul to perish. For Christ there are no “enemies,”
351 6,6    |          need our love and prayers. Christ prayed for those who crucified
352 6,6    |        attracted to the humility of Christ who said: “Learn from me;
353 6,6    |       preserve the humble spirit of Christ, for without it the light
354 6,6    |           itself. Then the peace of Christ enters the soul and the
355 7,1    |         adultery who was brought to Christ for judgment (Jn 8:2-11)
356 7,1    |     compromised. On the other hand, Christ's teaching about God's love
357 7,1    |             a trap in the question. Christ's adversaries intended to
358 7,1    |             toward a sinner through Christ.~ ~
359 7,3    |          such as the incarnation of Christ, His death and resurrection,
360 7,3    |           stature of the fulness of Christ (Eph. 4:13). As St. John
361 7,3    |       Christian life is “to imitate Christ in thought, word, and deed
362 7,4    |            of the mind and heart to Christ. Yet one's own discernment
363 7,4    |           the mystery of the living Christ.~ The grace of the Holy
364 7,4    |          source of living waters as Christ said. At this level discernment
365 7,4    |     adulterous woman brought before Christ. A certain brother in a
366 7,4    |         actual visions of the risen Christ as uncreated light which
367 8,1    |   conviction about the new faith in Christ for which he fought both
368 8,2    |        really matter to him now are Christ, the Church as His mystical
369 8,2    |             of identity centered on Christ and the fundamental Orthodox
370 8,2    |       Orthodox; only the mission of Christ and His Church have for
371 8,2    |     identity, a renewed humanity in Christ, just as in the case of
372 8,2    |      baptismal identity centered on Christ and His Church, even at
373 8,2    |            America for the glory of Christ. Such a zealous man, you
374 8,2    | Christophany, a vision of the risen Christ, which transformed his whole
375 8,2    |             say, “For me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:23) and “It is
376 8,2    |            no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me” (Gal. 2:
377 8,2    |         refuse,” in order “to gain” Christ and to continue to pursue
378 8,3    |         about what God was doing in Christ among Jews and Gentiles
379 8,3    |            gone astray and all need Christ through whom God offers
380 8,3    |      salvation by means of faith in Christ and apart from the Law of
381 8,3    |          the patriarchs, and... the Christ” (Rom. 9:4-5). Elsewhere
382 8,3    |           to God's righteousness in Christ (Rom. 9:24; 11:5-7). These
383 8,3    |             by their common call in Christ (Rom. 9:24) and their mutual
384 8,3    |           Christianity centering on Christ. Here the qualification
385 8,3    |           marked by the lordship of Christ, some natural branches were
386 8,3    |         willing “to be cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren
387 8,3    | contemporary Jews was not only over Christ but also over the interpretation
388 8,3    |        tradition. The experience of Christ gave the Apostle and the
389 8,3    |            claim that the coming of Christ and the gift of the Spirit
390 8,3    |              who wanted, along with Christ, to maintain Jewish customs
391 8,3    |           11), but rather preaching Christ to the Gentiles apart from
392 8,3    |        justification is by faith in Christ not by works of the Law (
393 8,3    |        temporary dispensation which Christ has ended and from which
394 8,3    |       beginning (Moses) and an end (Christ). In Saint Paul’s theological
395 8,3    |          hat is really fulfilled in Christ is God's promise to Abraham,
396 8,3    |           new universal identity in Christ. The Apostle was not of
397 8,3    |          Jewish faith discovered in Christ and the new humanity, the
398 8,3    |          bold move for the cause of Christ and the Church in the Graeco-Roman
399 8,3    |             of Saint Paul regarding Christ as the universal Savior,
400 8,3    |           our universal identity in Christ which transcends all cultures
401 8,3    |         deeply our true identity as Christ's Church is also to grasp
402 8,4    |      hundred and fifty years before Christ. When Jesus and His disciples “
403 8,4    |             his vision of the risen Christ. In Gal. 1:11-17, where
404 8,4    |         fruits of a new humanity in Christ in which “there is neither
405 8,4    |       female; for... all are one in Christ” (Gal. 3:28). The key difference
406 8,4    |           death and resurrection of Christ as His enthronement as universal
407 8,4    |           the universal lordship of Christ, and the resulting universal
408 8,4    |           to the Ephesians puts it: Christ “has broken down the dividing
409 8,4    |           congregations he founded? Christ did not give him a blueprint
410 8,4    |             by his daily union with Christ, and the power of the Spirit,
411 8,4    |           correctly say that it was Christ who acted in Saint Paul
412 8,4    |            he possessed the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). Nor was he
413 8,4    |           to his new discernment in Christ. Examples abound. The Roman
414 8,4    |           but as beloved brother in Christ (Philemon 12 and 16).~ An
415 8,4    |         Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ. Idol gods are nothing,
416 8,4    |            becoming the one body of Christ (10:14-22). While the Christians
417 8,4    |           the universal lordship of Christ. Dare we, like Saint Paul,
418 8,4    |           claim the modern world in Christ's name, rather than maintain
419 8,4    |         risks. The closer we are to Christ, the more clearly we can
420 8,4    |            our way under the law of Christ (ennomoi Christou, 1 Cor.
421 9,1    |                                     Christ: The Jewel of Orthodoxy.~
422 9,1    |             experience of the risen Christ and the gift of the Holy
423 9,1    |             focus was the person of Christ Himself, not simply as a
424 9,1    |            refuse” for the “sake of Christ” and “the surpassing worth
425 9,1    |           worth of the knowledge of Christ” (Phil. 3:7-8). The Apostle
426 9,1    |             traditions. Centered on Christ and inspired by the Holy
427 9,1    |          the truth of the Gospel of Christ.~ Twenty centuries later
428 9,1    |          our personal conversion to Christ and our existential appreciation
429 9,1    |   appreciation of the centrality of Christ in the Orthodox tradition.
430 9,1    |           liturgical celebration of Christ and the Orthodox Faith.~ ~
431 9,2    |                                     Christ as Revealer of the Father
432 9,2    |           of the first disciples of Christ. Philip proclaimed: “We
433 9,2    |            joy? See how he embraces Christ with his words of faith?
434 9,2    |            do just that: to embrace Christ with fervent faith; to delight
435 9,2    |           us be clear: Orthodoxy is Christ and Christ is Orthodoxy.
436 9,2    |             Orthodoxy is Christ and Christ is Orthodoxy. Without Christ,
437 9,2    |        Christ is Orthodoxy. Without Christ, that is, without His living
438 9,2    |          fit for a museum. But with Christ, that is, with His empowering
439 9,2    |             chest”? Would you say, “Christ our Lord, the Leader of
440 9,2    |             about the importance of Christ for Orthodoxy? What else
441 9,2    |          you were asked, “What does Christ really mean to you? What
442 9,2    |           you? What difference does Christ really make in your life?”
443 9,2    |             what we can learn about Christ, the eternal Word and Wisdom
444 9,2    |             and with His Son, Jesus Christ. And we are writing this
445 9,2    |       lesson of what the mystery of Christ means to Orthodoxy: Christ
446 9,2    |          Christ means to Orthodoxy: Christ reveals to us the life of
447 9,2    |         Bible. Exegesato means that Christ has shown to us the full
448 9,2    |            before Him or after Him, Christ has clearly explained or
449 9,2    |           inner capacities, just as Christ did, to show who God is,
450 9,2    |       better, who is this path, but Christ Himself, who said: “I am
451 9,2    |             New Testament about why Christ is the jewel of Orthodoxy.
452 9,2    |             the jewel of Orthodoxy. Christ leads us to the Father not
453 9,2    |          often mention the death of Christ as a sacrifice for forgiveness
454 9,2    |            forgiveness of our sins, Christ our God. For by Your own
455 9,2    |           come to save the world.”~ Christ came not only to teach but
456 9,2    |        teach but to save the world. Christ is not only the supreme
457 9,2    |           solemn words and actions, Christ signified the meaning of
458 9,2    |          and then himself perishes. Christ died on our behalf. Although
459 9,2    |           while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. . . . We rejoice
460 9,2    |          God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
461 9,2    |            the love of God in Jesus Christ — neither tribulation, or
462 9,2    |            can suffer. Why? Because Christ died and rose again for
463 9,2    |             Cross and Resurrection, Christ the Victor, defeated the
464 9,2    |             New Testament about why Christ is so decisively important
465 9,2    |          life and tradition is that Christ is the Giver of the Holy
466 9,2    |           Giver of the Holy Spirit. Christ promised His disciples: “
467 9,2    |       witness to me” (Jn 15:26). In Christ we come to know not only
468 9,2    |     personal lives. In other words, Christ has shown to us the fullness
469 9,2    |            finger or power by which Christ taught, healed, and cast
470 9,2    |             1 On that day the risen Christ became a fire starter and
471 9,2    |           the presence and power of Christ. We are the body of Christ.
472 9,2    |          Christ. We are the body of Christ. We are God’s holy people.
473 9,2    |           the glory of God.~ Why is Christ the precious jewel of Orthodoxy?
474 9,2    |            life of new creation. In Christ we know and worship the
475 9,2    |        worship the Holy Trinity. In Christ we transcend human boundaries
476 9,3    |            remembrance and honor of Christ and the saints. Thus the
477 9,3    |           Orthodoxy, is the icon of Christ. The icon of Christ symbolizes
478 9,3    |         icon of Christ. The icon of Christ symbolizes His incarnation
479 9,3    |        strive to be living icons of Christ and sharers in the new creation,
480 9,3    |          ourselves in the manner of Christ’s love and service to others
481 9,3    |           and false triumphalism in Christ’s terms? I invite you to
482 9,3    |          the true faith and life in Christ.~ The triumph of Christ
483 9,3    |             Christ.~ The triumph of Christ is His coming to Jerusalem
484 9,3    |          thriambeusas) over them in Christ” (Col. 2:15). The triumph
485 9,3    |             triumph accomplished by Christ, who came not to be served
486 9,3    |             we following the way of Christ’s triumph through His example
487 9,3    |             compel ourselves to put Christ, and only Christ and His
488 9,3    |             to put Christ, and only Christ and His Gospel, at the center
489 9,3    |            according to the mind of Christ (Acts 15:28;1 Cor. 2:16).~
490 9,3    |           interests for the sake of Christ and the Gospel.~3)     
491 9,3    |             lie that we can live by Christ’s Gospel and still retain
492 9,3    |             of them in the light of Christ who affirms and blesses
493 9,3    |        before God, we must, just as Christ did, love evil-doers with
494 9,3    |             paschal proclamation of Christ’s victory over death bringing
495 9,3    |          and truth to all peoples.~ Christ exposes false triumphalism,
496 9,3    |          The Gospel text notes that Christ said the parable for those
497 9,3    |             an exemplary servant of Christ. The Apostle Paul was a
498 9,3    |         destroy it. But when he met Christ and converted to the mind
499 9,3    |            converted to the mind of Christ everything changed! Astonishing
500 9,3    |        Gospel and the one Church of Christ which is His Body. In many