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“ Dost thou renounce Satan, and all his Angels, and all his works, and all his services, and all his pride? ...The first act of the Christian life is a renunciation, a challenge. No one can be Christ's until he has, first, faced evil, and then become ready to fight it. How far is this spirit from the way in which we often proclaim, or to use a more modern term, sell Christianity today! ... How could we then speak of fight when the very set-up of our churches must, by definition, convey the idea of softness, comfort, peace? ... One does not see very well where and how fight would fit into the weekly bulletin of a suburban parish, among all kings of counseling sessions, bake sales, and young adult get-togethers. ...Dost thou unite thyself unto Christ? ”

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The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world.

~ Alexander Schmemann

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

~ Alexander Schmemann

Whether we spiritualize our life or secularize our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp.

~ Alexander Schmemann

In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ's death. In a world where everything that seems to be present is immediately past, everything in Christ is able to participate in the eternal present of God.

~ Alexander Schmemann