06/14/2026
To be a Christian means to be courageous:”:
Good pieces of advice from Fr. Orest Fredina
• To be a Christian means to belong to Christ, to receive the touch of God in the Sacrament of Baptism and to make gratitude to God the meaning of one’s life.
• Many people try to achieve success in a certain field, but in everyone’s life there is a moment when the depth speaks. It is then that a person thinks about where I am moving – and there is no nationality or civilization that would not come to such an encounter.
• The lives of the saints are the Gospel in practice. Christianity is the practice of the Gospel for every day. Just as one cannot learn to swim from a book, one cannot learn to be a Christian in theory.
• Sunday is the day of God, the day of our freedom, it is the feast of Christ’s resurrection, victory over death, it is to a certain extent a manifestation of our freedom.
• It is impossible to be a Christian without Christ.
• To be a Christian is to remain faithful to Christ, not because you have to, but because your nature requires it.
• We are currently going through a period of suffering in the country, and there are two options: to fall, do nothing, complain, or to rise: to pray and work.
• Jesus’ disciples had the opportunity to live in the presence of the living God. This is how a Christian should live – to feel the presence of God. If we learn to kneel in the morning and ask for blessings, to walk in His presence all day, then when I play the violin, play football, walk or get off the bus, I kneel in the temple. Hence, the problem of concentration: if we are in another plane for 24 hours, it is difficult to stop instantly to pray; we must always feel the presence of God.
• Where there are Christians, there are no crowds, people are not blind: we need to learn to see each other every day, because how can you love God, whom you do not see, if you do not love your brother, whom you see? How we live shows how we believe.
• Christianity is always a choice. And in the world, it is always a choice, including whether to give a bribe or not.
• Being a Christian means being courageous; the symbol of Christianity is a lion, a king, and strength. It is also a lamb, a fish, but in no case a chameleon.
• Love is one and the same; it is the force by which the world is called to life. Those who are against it seek to destroy this harmony. You can be a true Christian, being a doctor, a teacher, or a soldier. There are people who take up arms to destroy, and there are people who take them up to protect.
• When you go to a meeting, you prepare. To cross the threshold of the church is to prepare.