- Yuri Lutsenko
While reminiscing about the coming of Jesus Christ and His unsurpassed heroic act, the overwhelming majority of people perceives it as the times gone with the wind, as something that happened a very long time ago.
However, it is not so. The process goes on continuously, here and now, and every day for the past two thousand years.
His teaching penetrates the soul and operates in it, that is if the soul is alive and has faith.
God is with us if, besides traditional Lent, austerity, regular church attendance, and symbolic communion via bread and wine, we gradually learn the Laws of God and indeed start following Them, meaning we perform the actual communion with the Laws.
- Yuri Lutsenko
I appeal to everyone who considers themselves a Christian. Think about this, if you were specifically offered redemption of all your sins at the expense of the martyrdom of an innocent person, would you have enough conscience to accept this sacrifice, and even with joy and reverence bear this in your memory all your life?
Is this really an incomprehensible Heavenly Justice? Let’s assume it is.
Then how did people become righteous in times before Christ, prior to His sacrifice, including characters of the Old Testament? How did the people like Sergiy Radonezhsky, Seraphim Sarovsky, Seraphim Vyritskiy, and Alexander Svirsky achieve holiness? It was only by personal long-term labor, fulfilling the Commandments.
- Yuri Lutsenko
Religion – derived from the Latin word religare – reunion (re-establishing connection), in this case, the connection between man and God.
Pluralism - diversity, a philosophical concept or policy advocating a state of society in which members of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups may co-exist independently from each other and without being reduced to a common principle.
True faith - is not just an intellectual statement but a genuine spiritual state of openness to the Creator.
Apocalypse - the Greek word for revelation. This word typically refers to the Judgement Day and the End of Ages.
