In a word, he was a good pastor, father, and bishop to his flock, known especially for his love and care for the poor. Most simply put he was a divinely good person."
- Thomas Hopko, The Winter Pascha

He was not a prophet in the technical sense, yet he proclaimed the Word of God, exposed the sins of the wicked, defended the rights of the oppressed and afflicted, and battled against every form of injustice with supernatural compassion and mercy.

for his possession of the "fruit of the Holy Spirit.. love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Gal 5:22-23). He was not a mystic in our present meaning of the term but he lived daily with the Lord and was godly in all of his words and deeds.

the now and the not yet which is the very essence of her message to the world…

+Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann: Church, World, and Mission

November 24, 2024

By her very nature the Church belongs to the end: to the ultimate reality of the “world to come,” the kingdom of God …It is precisely her knowledge and constant partaking of the “end” that relates the world, creates the correlation between

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