The Orthodox Spiritual Warrior.



“It is obviously wrong to drift into Orthodoxy because it offers a safe harbour. Orthodoxy involves struggle, noncomplacency. The Orthodox Christian is literally a ‘soldier of Christ,’ a fighter, constantly championing the cause. He struggles throughout his life, in a daily and unremitting battle. ..in Orthodoxy, our whole lives are sanctified in the life of the Church, through which we receive the Divine Grace of the Holy Spirit. Orthodoxy is not about having a good time, an easy-ride;.. it involves a spiritual struggle against transgression, passion.. sinful desires.The Orthodox Christian must fight constantly with his old self; searching, through God’s Grace, for the new self, reborn in Christ. 
 
 
Those who are spiritually idle or indifferent have no place in such an environment; because ..of their own accord, they isolate themselves from the Church; they do not want to belong. Even though God wishes that all be saved, when a person does not want to be, then God will respect his freedom of choice. This is why it is the.. complacent, the deluded, and those who seek material reward, who forsake Orthodoxy. They have never truly lived .. the Orthodox Christian life, and so they abandon it, betray it, turn their backs without ever truly understanding. It follows,.. that Orthodoxy is available to all, ..but it is up to each of us to decide HOW Orthodoxy will live within our own life.”
— HB Peter VII, Pope & Patriarch of Alexandria & All Africa, of thrice-blessed memory (+2004)

 
What did The Samaritan Woman at the Well do when she realized that she had just met the Messiah?  She told everyone who would listen and followed Jesus from that moment on; a powerful witness of her renewal based in her relationship to him before and after his Ascension.  She was the first person to whom he identified himself as Messiah.  The location of that conversion is protected inside an Orthodox Church to this day. If you think her life from sexually promiscuous to chastity was not a struggle, you don't understand human nature.  Many times divorced, cohabiting with a man not her husband and she became a Saint, celebrated by the Orthodox Church that retains her name, Saint Photine - meaning the luminous one.




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