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"In a wedding ceremony there's also Grace, and God Blesses people to get married, and he Blesses Monasticism, and so staying in the world as a single person living as a Monastic is not the same, and you don't realise it until you're Tonsured because the level of Grace that you're given, you don't have that as a lay person... God has Blessed Marriage and Monasticism."
"I walk into the Holy Tomb and I say "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on your servant..." And I feel like I've done everything for them, that's how much Grace it has... because God gave so much Grace to this place because that's where He Resurrected."
"Forgiveness has Risen from the Tomb… Forgiveness for Saint John Chrysostom is personified in the person of Jesus Christ. It's not just an action, it’s a Person, and we are asked to be Christ-like… so if Christ truly lives in us, then everything that we do lives and breathes the imitation of Christ."
"We are now being participants of Christ’s life. We are there, we are present, we are being witnesses and participants of everything in Christ's life."
"By me carrying this cross means I am a member of Christ and His Church, I am a part of Him."
"The Kingdom of Heaven, Christ says to us, is within you."
"But he bears in his Soul, in his whole being, the Priesthood of Christ, with Whose Grace he shepherds… as one having authority."
"It was pitch black. How did they see Christ coming? Christ obviously had light around Him, He was radiated. They saw Christ coming to them, but full of Light."
"Then the Theotokos rejoiced and exulted and kissed the knees of her Son, and blessed the Creator of Heaven and Earth Who gave her such a gift through Jesus Christ her son."
"She Prayed, and she knew that the power of Prayer was greater than any other type of sin and destruction."