ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.
We believe that there is someone who works differently, the mystery of life. Because of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, we can now enjoy eternal life. The cross is the symbol of the power and authority of the philanthropic God on earth – a triumph of death – through His death as a human but His resurrection as God.
Therefore, our greatest power is not what we have, but who we are. And we are Orthodox Christians – communicants of the Risen Body and Blood of Christ – and we are transformed into this new logic and new life.
But we must put into practice this new life that Christ has given us. This is the life of the Church, the life of the Divine Liturgy. Then we will gain the full extent of the power of this new mode of life – which death cannot destroy – it merely changes its external form, and improves it!
We venerate the cross of Christ which tells us of God’s coming to us, and of our return to Him – both accomplished by the death of the cross. Therefore, we have been given the ability to die, and yet to live. This is the logic of the Divine Liturgy.