Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dea… - Alexander Schmemann
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dea…
- Alexander Schmemann
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s… - Alexander Schmemann
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s…
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo… - Alexander Schmemann
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo…
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God. - Alexander Schmemann
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.
Academic theology is false. - Alexander Schmemann
Academic theology is false.
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world. - Alexander Schmemann
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.' - Alexander Schmemann
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, rel… - Alexander Schmemann
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, rel…
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church. - Alexander Schmemann
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
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