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Orthodox Church, Waukesha, WI, OCA, Holy Nativity Chapel/111 E Main Street, Waukesha, WI (2026)

04/10/2026

Holy Friday, 4/10: VESPERS 4pm – Holy Nativity, Waukesha

Holy Saturday/ Pascha, 4/11: PASCHAL VIGIL & LITURGY 8PM – Holy Nativity, Waukesha – bring food to share.

04/03/2026

BRIDEGROOM MATINS SERVICE AT 6PM ON SUNDAY EVENING 4/5.

This is a beautiful and moving service that is an entrance into Passion Week. It will last no more than an hour, and Fr. Tom will have books for everyone to follow.

Please understand that this is not a Communion service.

03/01/2026

MARCH 2026 MESSENGER – St Maria of Paris Chapels Ministry, OCA/Midwest Dioc.
Holy Nativity Chapel, 111 E Main St, Waukesha 53186
St Maria of Paris Chapel 312 E Main St, Plymouth WI 53070
Fr Thomas Mueller 414 861 5801 [email protected]

FASTING AND REPENTANCE – Note from Fr Tom: I am trying to make this brief in the hope that you all will read it. Since our chapel services are limited in frequency, it becomes more important that people try to keep up with the teaching I provide in print here. It won’t make up for fewer in-person contacts, but it can help us on our way.

First, FASTING – Fasting is not the be-all and end-all of Lent. It should serve as an aid to:
1) greater prayer
2) greater spiritual discipline
3) repentance
4) (most importantly) love for God and for other human beings.

Fasting without these things and especially without love is pharisaical, hypocritical, and pointless. But fasting itself is important. It serves as a psychological marker that we are trying to take Lent seriously - as a time to pray, repent, and grow in love. Just as regular and dedicated physical exercise can show that we want to enhance our bodily health, fasting points us toward prayer and away from obsession with worldly things that weigh on us. It heightens our spiritual attention. It reminds us that the amount and richness of the food we ordinarily eat is unavailable to hundreds of millions of our brothers and sisters in human flesh. It leads us to ask ourselves: how can we be more generous, more loving, more spiritually alert, more truly human?

But HOW To FAST? The strict ascetic norms of fasting are very challenging: basically a vegan diet (the Paradise Diet) from day 0ne of Lent till Pascha. Without making a generalization, it is safe to say that most Orthodox make change of life compromises. We have spoken and written about the fact that some of us in our chapel communities have issues of severe dietary problems that almost make standard fasting impossible. Some have family ISSUES of sharing meals with non-Orthodox family or coworkers. There may be problems of physical frailty, change of life, or age. However, we all need to find some aspect of the fast that we can accept: certain days of the week or special days (for example: Wednesday, Fridays, Holy Week). Or substitute fasting that is not even about food: e.g., fasting from noise, from unnecessary screen or phone browsing, from the anger or gossip that comes out of our mouths. For this to be effective, it has to be systematic, disciplined, and subject to conscientious review – that is to say, serious.

Remember Jesus fasted, people in the Old and New Testaments fasted, and millennia of Christians fasted. As well as others who were seeking God in their own ways.

03/01/2026

3/1: Sunday of Orthodoxy, Lent I – LITURGY at noon, HOLY NATIVITY, WAUKESHA

Pan-Orthodox Vespers 6pm at SS Cyril & Methodius, 2505 S 30 th St, Milwaukee

3/8: Lent Sunday II – LITURGY at noon at ST MARIA, PLYMOUTH
Chicago Deanery Vespers 6pm at St. Nicholas, Kenosha – Fr Tom
preaching

3/11: Wed. – PRE-SANCTIFIED LITURGY 5:30pm – HOLY NATIVITY, WAUKESHA

3/15: Sunday of the Holy Cross – LITURGY noon – HOLY NATIVITY, WAUKESHA

3/22: Lent Sunday IV – LITURGY noon at ST MARIA, PLYMOUTH

3/25: Annunciation services at Annunciation Greek Orth. Church to be announced

3/29: Schedule for last week of Great Lent to be announced
March Scripture Study location & time to be announced – Confessions by appointment

01/26/2026

February 2026 Chapels Schedule –

Sunday, 2/8: Prodigal Son Sunday – LITURGY WAUKESHA at noon

Sunday, 2/22: Forgiveness Sunday (Eve of Lent) -LITURGY
PLYMOUTH at noon; Ceremony of Forgiveness

About the limited schedule – from Fr Tom
Please excuse and understand the limited schedule for February. I need to substitute for Fr Elijah at SS Cyril and Methodius, 2505 S 30 th St in Milwaukee, on Jan. 25 th and Feb. 1st. This is an
obligation that pertains to my attachment to SS. Cyril and Methodius. I am serving at Holy Theophany Mission in Walworth (Fontana) on Feb. 15 during the Deanery Youth Camp. This is
also something I need to do as Camp Spiritual Director.

01/03/2026

JANUARY 2026 SCHEDULE

HOLY NATIVITY, WAUKESHA
Sunday, Jan. 4: Sunday before Theophany, the 70 Apostles
Liturgy at noon with Blessing of Water

Sunday, Jan. 18: SS Athanasius & Cyril of Alexandria –
Liturgy at noon

ST MARIA OF PARIS, Plymouth
Sunday, Jan. 11: Sunday after Theophany – Liturgy at noon with Blessing of Water

12/06/2025

December 2025 Messenger
St Maria of Paris Chapels Ministry
[email protected] + Orthodox Church in America
Holy Nativity Chapel, 111 E Main St, Waukesha (chapel entrance on the south – to the right of the main entrance)

Sunday, Dec. 7 - St Ambrose of Milan, St Nicholas of Myra – Liturgy at noon
Sunday, Dec. 21 – Sunday before Christmas – Liturgy at noon
Wednesday, Dec. 24 – Vesperal Liturgy for Eve of Christmas at 10:30 – coffee hour after – Chapel Patronal Feast!

St. Maria of Paris Chapel – Main & Division Streets – Plymouth WI
Sunday, Dec. 14: Ancestors of Christ – Liturgy at noon
Sunday, Dec. 28: Sun. after Christmas, St Joseph, St James the Brother of the Lord, & David the King – Liturgy at noon

About Fasting: We’ve discussed all the particular difficulties of fasting - very strict special diets (for health preservation), sharing meals with non-Orthodox family, and all the distraction of the secularized, consumer-oriented Christmas season. Taking all of this into consideration, we still should take seriously the spiritual discipline of fasting in order to:

- To enhance our efforts to pray without the sluggishness of
overindulge;
- To tame the impulses of our physical and worldly self-indulgence;
- To deny our own self-will and selfishness;
- To turn our attention toward the needs of others rather our own
desires.

If we aren’t able to fast ‘by the book’, we should still observe the fast in principle. We can fast from things other than food. For example, we can fast from: noise, trivial browsing on controversy, gossip, anger, obsessive guilt-tripping, self-pity, vengeful fantasies, and indulging our fears. Use your imagination. This isn’t just dodging hard discipline. It’s a real ascetic endeavor. St John Chrysostom, who was no slacker regarding ascetic discipline, said that those who fast from food, while they rip the flesh of their brothers and sisters by their words, have accomplished nothing. All these things – fearfulness, wallowing in guilt, unforgiving thoughts, gossip, indulgence of the eyes - are passions that are more dangerous than eating meat. There is another asceticism that married people, or even widowed
people with grandchildren, as well as single people can perform – the asceticism of caring for our families, praying for them, broadening the scope of our care and prayer beyond our families. We can dedicate ourselves anew to this asceticism in the world.
Finally, we can pray better and pray more; that’s really the principal aim of fasting anyway. We can give more to others and fulfill the fast in righteousness/justice. - Fr Tom 12/4/25

P.S. More about fasting before Great Lent begins in late February

11/27/2025

NOVEMBER, 2025 MESSENGER – St Maria of Paris Chapels Ministry (Orthodox Church in America)
Archpriest Thomas Mueller, 1309 N 42nd St, Milwaukee WI 53208 414 861 5801 [email protected]
Holy Nativity Chapel, Waukesha WI and St Maria of Paris Chapel, Plymouth WI stmariachapels.com

THIRD and LAST INSTALLMENT: Growing in Prayer 11/21/25
Why Pray? Simply put, we pray in order to know God, to learn to trust and love Him, so that we can follow Him, do as He does, and be as He is. This should be our goal in this life, and ultimately for eternity beyond this time-bound life. Hopefully, we all want to do good and generous and loving things in our lives. As Jesus, the Son of God made man, does. Prayer, both in the Eucharistic community (the Church) and in our personal lives, equips us to follow and image Christ in what we do and how we treat others and the world. We see models of this in the Gospel and in our Tradition.
For example, Jesus prays for 40 days in the desert before He begins His ministry of teaching and healing. He is the Son of God, one with His Father, knowing Him and known perfectly. But as Man, He suffers temptations like fear, as we do. He hungers as we do. So, in our flesh, He prays so that He will be able to fulfill His incarnate mission. In Gethsemane, He again prays that He might be able to bear our humanity through the traumatizing trials, torments, and death He will endure – and through death to risen life. Jesus prays before He acts.

Today we are celebrating the Entrance of the young child Mary into the Temple. This story, from early Church lore, has her parents bringing her to live and study in the Temple. They dedicate this late and unexpected child to God Who gave her to them. She will learn to pray and seek God before she is called to become the mother of His Son. She prays before she acts. Before she consents to become God’s living Temple.

After Jesus’ Ascension, the Apostles are told to remain in prayer till the Holy Spirit comes to them. For ten days they wait and pray. Then the Spirit comes upon them and transforms fishermen into theologians, scared and doubting men into proclaimers of the Gospel and martyrs for it. Prayer precedes action for them, and for us as well.

WHEN SHOULD WE PRAY?
When we are feeling weak, afraid, discouraged. When our failures and shortcomings (sins) weigh on us. Being in God’s presence brings us peace, even if it’s only a respite of peace. We cannot draw on divine strength is we don’t seek it. Shame and guilt are temptations that keep us from God’s mercy and healing. Hiding from God doesn’t help us.

When we feel distant from God. He is always present with us. We become distant by turning away. He does not abide with us if our hearts are closed to Him. He is always present, but He does not force Himself on us.

When we need to give thanks – as we always should. Thanksgiving uplifts us and awakens us to God’s gifts of our created world, of friends and family, our own physical/emotional/intellectual/spiritual life, of His limitless love for us and our world.

When we grieve for the trials, pains, and deaths of those we love, and of this whole beautiful and troubled world, in prayer, we commend to God – in an act of radical faith - even those who are beyond any other help we can give.

These are all occasions and reasons for prayer. They shape our prayer. They drive and inform our prayer.

Finally - one footnote. I haven’t said anything about making up our own extemporaneous prayer. Certainly, we can do this from our own hearts. If it really simply follows spontaneously from our hearts, like a song, it can be good. But if we have to self-consciously compose it, then that mental exercise can become a distraction. We can spoil our prayer by being too SELF-conscious about it. I also notice that when people compose prayers publicly, they often follow a sort of standard pattern of ideas and expressions. In fact, these prayers could just as easily be written and recited from a text. One reason that I love the Jesus Prayer is that it does not require intellectual or emotional labor. It is utterly simple and complete. It says what is essential without any self-conscious effort or discursive thoughts, which may amount to actual distraction from God’s presence.

I hope my poor thoughts may have been helpful. Please if you have any questions or issues about what I have written, please let’s dialogue.
Fr Tom

08/10/2025

AUGUST 2025 NEWSLETTER – ST MARIA OF PARIS CHAPELS MINISTRY: PART ONE: SCHEDULE
Holy Nativity, 111 E Main St, Waukesha WI (small south chapel)
St Maria of Paris, 312 E Main, Plymouth WI
Archpriest Thomas Mueller 1209 N 42nd St, Milwaukee 53208, 414 861 5801, crankypriest@gmail

Holy Nativity, Waukesha:
8/3: Pentecost VIII, tone 7 – LITURGY noon
8/10: Transfiguration of the Lord Postfeast – LITURGY noon
8/17: Dormition of the Theotokos Postfeast – LITURGY noon
8/31: Pentecost XI, tone 2 – Eve of Church New Year – LITURGY noon

St Maria of Paris, Plymouth
Saturday , 8/23: Leavetaking of the Dormition of the Theotokos – LITURGY 3:30pm

For information on services at other churches for major weekday services, ask Fr Tom.
For Saturday or Festal Vespers possibilities, ditto.
DOMITION FAST: 8/1 through 8/14: suggestions for observance – schedule Confession, pray more consistently, pray for peace in Ukraine and mercy in Gaza, fast in compassion for those who starving – fast from vengeance, from anger, from gluttony and lust, from selfishness, from pride, from meanness.

For Gazans facing starvation, permanent debilitation, and death, donation of funds will not help unless food is allowed to reach them peacefully. News will be given here when people actually have safe access to food.

Page Two – 8/25 Chapels Newsletter – St Maria of Parish Chapels Ministry
Holy Nativity,Waukesha, WI and St Maria of Paris, Plymouth, WI
Archpriest Thomas Mueller, 414 861 5801, [email protected]
stmariachapels.com
STATEMENTS OF THE PATRIARCHS OF JERUSALEM and leaders of other Christian bodies in the Holy Land –
Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III and Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa
7/18 – On the bombing of the Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City by Israeli forces.
Their statement “expresses deepest condemnation and denunciation of the strike that targeted the Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City…endangering the lives of innocent people and especially those with special needs and displaced people seeking shelter in the church…Targeting a holy place currently housing 600 displaced people, the majority of whom were children and 54 people with special needs is a flagrant violation of human dignity and a flagrant violation of the sanctity of life and the sanctity of religious sites, which are supposed to provide a haven in times of war.”
The statement referenced several other Israel attacks on Christian sites in Gaza: the bombing of the Baptist hospital 10/17/23; the strike on the ancient St Porphyrius of Gaza Orthodox Church 10/19/23 (St Porphyrius was Bishop of Gaza and the evangelizer of the area); and a previous attack on Holy Family worshippers on 10/16/23. In this recent bombing of Holy Family Church, 3 were killed; and the priest, whom Pope Francis called every day during the war, was wounded. The patriarchs’ delegation included other religious leaders and representatives of 20 countries, including the EU, Japan, and Canada (but not the United States).
Comment: How could they fail to know these were churches and a hospital? Well, journalists, medics, doctor, nurses, schools. ICU’s, aid workers, neonatal wards, and food caravans have all been assaulted. Everything is a potential target.
7/25 – On the attack by Israeli rightwing settlers on Taybeh, the only fully Christian community of in the West Bank.
(Note: The West Bank has nothing to do with Hamas; it is governed by the more moderate PLO. In order to weaken the PLO, the State of Israel bankrolled Hamas at times during Hamas’ 9-year rule in Gaza. Settlements in an occupied territory like the West Bank are forbidden by international law and by treaty agreements signed by Israel. The Israeli forces in good settler colonialist tradition provides backup support for the illegal armed and aggressive settlers. – Fr Tom)
Again, the Jerusalem Patriarchs issued a joint statement, with “an unwavering condemnation of yet another violent assault that targeted the West Bank Christian town of Taybeh…vehicles were set ablaze and hateful graffiti were sprayed – an unambiguous act of intimidation directed at a peaceful and faithful community on the land of Christ…not an isolated incident…part of an alarming pattern of settler violence against West Bank communities, including their homes, sacred spaces, and ways of life.”
The settler assailants were “masked individuals, armed or on horseback, spreading terror… fire reached the walls of the ancient church, a living testament of the faith’s enduring presence in the Holy Land.” The patriarchs were troubled by the climate “of impunity undermining peaceful coexistence in the land of the Resurrection.” They demand accountability from Israel. Beyond that, they protest “police reports reducing the issue to property damage omitting context of systematic intimidation and abuse…” They also decry a “reactionary disinformation campaign by Israeli settler groups…to deflect scrutiny of criminal conduct in violation of international norms.” Patriarch Theophilos III said that the Church has an obligation to be present spiritually and humanely “in a merciless war…to rekindle hope in hearts crushed beneath the weight of this ongoing devastating atrocity.”
(This event received very little attention from the US media or government, which is typical. This is why I present it here, so that as Orthodox we can empathize and pray for and advocate for our sisters and brothers, and all the suffering.
Another attack on an Orthodox Christian Church, Mar Elias in Damascus, occurred on 6/22/25. This was a su***de bombing carried out during Divine Liturgy, apparently sponsored by Islamist extremists. The new Syrian government, led by a former Al Qaida leader, has been embraced by both US and Israel. This government and its supporters have been attacking Muslim minorities and the Christian minority, who were protected by the overthrown Assad government. It was condemned by the UN Security Council as “a heinous and cowardly terrorist attack.” (CBN news)
Such attacks were condemned also by Patriarch Batholomew and Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

06/30/2025

MESSENGER – JULY, 2025 – ST MARIA OF PARIS CHAPELS MINISTRY, Orthodox Church in America (OCA):
HOLY NATIVITY CHAPEL -111 E Main St, Waukesha WI 53186 (in space provided by St Matthias Church)
ST MARIA OF PARIS CHAPEL – Main and Division Streets, Plymouth WI 53073 (in space provided by St Paul’s Church)
Archpriest Thomas Mueller 414 861 5801 [email protected]
stmariachapels.com
SCHEDULE FOR JULY, 2025 Note: This is a somewhat limited schedule for this summer month because of various church-related and personal obligations.
SUNDAY, 6/29: Liturgy at noon – Holy Nativity, Waukesha
SUNDAY, 7/13: Proliturgy at noon – Holy Nativity, Waukesha
Saturday, 7/18: Liturgy at 3:30pm – St Maria of Paris, Plymouth
Sunday, 8/3: Liturgy at noon – Holy Nativity, Waukesha

Fr Tom at Chicago Deanery Youth Camp from Saturday 6/28 – Tuesday, 7/1
Fr Tom will be serving Liturgy at SS Constantine & Helen in Milwaukee on Sunday, 7/27
If anyone wants to schedule a special service or meeting or educational session, please contact Fr Tom.

PART TWO of MESSENGER – ST MARIA CHAPELS MINISTRY: Holy Theophany, Waukesha & St Maria of Paris, Plymouth, WI
Archpriest Thomas Mueller, 1309 N 42nd St, Milwaukee WI 53208 - 414 861 5801 crankypriest .com stmariachapels.com

THOUGHTS ON THE KNEELING PRAYERS OF PENTECOST

During the Kneeling Prayers that we said toward the end of the Pentecost services this year, it struck me anew how generous and how abundant in mercy is the God we address in these prayers. We are celebrating the outpouring of God’s creative Spirit in Whom is the very existence of all that is. In Creation, in Pentecost, in the Fulfillment of the Last Day - that is, the End of the Ages, secular time. The Word of God bespeaks His benevolence, and the Spirit of God, like Breath from His mouth, inspires and informs it to be what God desires. This is an exuberant Feast of the outpouring of Divine creativity, largesse, mercy, and joy, accompanied originally by the super powering of human speech – not babble but perfect evangelical clarity for all. The unique prayers of the Feast proclaim this to us.
I wonder sometimes why people don’t take them to heart. Are we afraid of falling into pietistic emoting? That’s a ‘red herring.’ We are not ‘pentecostals’ of the sectarian style of recent times. But these prayers, as well as the Psalms which set the tone and style for all liturgical prayer, are marked by unshakeable trust in God’s mercy and abiding compassion, in the depth and breadth of His love, in the awesome joy of His Name and His presence. Why should we hang back from opening our hearts to this saving Mystery?

Look at what the Kneeling Prayers say about our sins and weakness: “Emboldened by Your compassions, we call out, ‘remember not the sins of our youth and our ignorance…cast us not away in time of old age, when our strength fails, forsake us not… attend to us in favor and grace. Measure our transgressions according to Your compassion, set the depth of your compassion against the multitude of our offenses.’” (First Prayer) Our liturgical prayers always express our trust in God’s compassion and mercy in spite of our waywardness. We don’t take it for granted, but we TRUST in God, in His infinite love. This is not groveling in guilt, but deep trust in the One Who loves us without limits or self-interest. Neither presumptuous like the pharisee’s prayer nor self-hating like the chant of some medieval flagellant nor like the fear of Calvinist “sinners in the hands of an angry God”. But rather like the thief on the cross who – all his past pulling him down to annihilation – simply had the grace to put all his trust in the bloodied and humiliated Man dying beside him; we call him ”the Wise Thief…made worthy of Paradise in a single moment.” You see, the Gospel is full of these startling moments meant to blow away the dust, grim cobwebs of our minds that misconstrue God as some everlasting and terrifying celestial accountant who spends his eternity keeping a detailed tally of billions of peoples’ faults over vast millennia. The idea is insulting and I think it panders to an unholy fear. We need to hear what our prayers say, in their full and rich context. Maybe we must really listen to the psalms, not just buzz through them to fulfill a rubrical quota. Really see what Jesus does in the Gospels in the immediate context of His radically transformative intent.

Again, in the third Pentecost Kneeling Prayer, we pray for the departed at great length. We address these amazing words to the Word of God, our Savior: …”on this perfect and saving feast, You are pleased to receive offerings and supplications for those bound in Hell, and grant us the great hope that respite and comfort will be sent down from You to the departed from the grief that binds them. Hearken to us, Your humble and piteous ones who pray, and give rest to Your servants who have fallen asleep before us, in a place of light, refreshment, and repose , from which all sickness, sorrow, and sighing have fled…for the dead do not praise You, nor do those in Hell offer You confession, but we the living bless You…and offer them propitiatory prayers and sacrifices for their souls.” So it seems that we confide in an all-loving God our trust even for the departed in Hell. There are echoes of this in St John Chrysostom’s Paschal homily read at every Paschal Matins. We see how far this faith in God’s love extends.

Response from an email:
Someone who seeks my counsel sent me an email saying “How do I know that what you tell me is right?” Well, I think I said that if you have confidence in me, you will accept my counsel. But I can’t make you or give you some infallible stamp of authenticity. I could and will say at some point that maybe this person should stop looking at the blogs of self-appointed instant elders and mini-popes who have something to say and prescribe about every detail of practice – what will get you to heaven and what will keep you out, about who can and who can’t be saved, etc. I should and will say, as I have written here, that my friend should look at what the very Logos made Man says and does in the Gospel, should look at Jesus’ openness, peaceful receptiveness, His setting aside of conventional boundaries and prohibitions to speak forth God’s healing, forgiving, and saving compassion. I will suggest reading our liturgical texts and prayers slowly and attentively to plumb their profound and positive wisdom. All this is not some commentary on our Tradition, such as one might get from an elder. It is the Spirit-given root of that Tradition, by which lesser things must be judged and weighed. Let us open our hearts to these words of peace and generous mercy, and let us live in hope. - Fr Thomas Mueller

05/18/2025

LATE PASCHAL THOUGHTS – St Maria of Paris Chapels Ministry – Monthly Messenger 5/15/25
Father Thomas Mueller 414 861 5801
Testimonies from holy people of the 20th – 21st centuries
Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of blessed memory – on Divine Beauty

“By virtue of their creation in the image and likeness of God, all persons participate in the Divine Beauty. While this is true of every human being without exception, however outwardly degraded or sinful, it is true pre-eminently of God’s holy ones, the saints…So it also with every expression of beauty in created things; such beauty is symbolic, in the sense that it makes manifest the Divine. In this way beauty brings God to us, and us to God; it is a two-way door of entry. Beauty is therefore endowed with sacramental power, acting as vehicle of God’s grace, an effective means of sanctification and healing. And that is why it can justly be claimed that beauty will save the world.

“Despite the effects of the Fall and despite our deep sinfulness, the world continues to be God’s creation. It has not ceased to be ‘altogether beautiful.’ Despite human alienation and suffering, the Divine Beauty is still present in our midst and still remains ever active. Incessantly performing its work of healing and transfiguration. Even now beauty is saving the world, and it will always continue to do so. But it is the beauty of a God who is totally involved in the pain of the world that He has made, of a God who died on the Cross and on the third rose victorious from the dead.” (Sobornost, v. 30 – 2008)
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St. Maria of Paris (1891 – 1945) from “The Mysticism of Human Communion”

“Christianity is Paschal joy, Christianity is collaboration with God, Christianity is an obligation newly undertaken by humankind to cultivate the Lord’s paradise, once rejected in the Fall; and in the thicket of this paradise, overgrown with the w**ds of many centuries of sin and thorns of our dry and loveless life, Christianity commands us to root up, plow, sow, w**d, and harvest.

“Authentic, God-manly, conciliar Christianity calls us in the Paschal song: ‘Let us embrace one another.’ In the Liturgy we say, ‘Let us love one another, that with one mind we confess…’ Let us love – meaning not only one mind, but also one action, a common life.

“It is necessary to build our relations to the human being and to the world not on human and worldly laws, but within the revelation of the divine commandment. To see in the human being the image of God, and in the world to see God’s creation. It is necessary to understand that Christianity demands of us not only the mysticism of communion with God, but also the mysticism of communion with man.”

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