"The calling of the Orthodox Christian is not to transcend the material or secular world, living in some imagined mystical isolation from the “profane.” We are to transfigure the material through the spiritual by our life and actions. We are to bring to bear in our immediate environs the Kingdom of God, and thereby assist in remaking the world in His image, and not our own."
+ Fr Deacon James Bryant, Reclaiming the Arts: An Orthodox Perspective, http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/53335.htm
"The Christian faith is that God is with us. The Christian life is lived moment by moment in union with God and in harmony with nature which God has rendered the bearer of the holy and the place of communion.Living a one storey life can be described as simply living here and now. It is being present to God Who is present to us. It is recognizing the true nature of the created world as the arena of both our struggle and our serenity."
+ Fr Stephen Freeman, Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
Christ is in our midst. He is and ever shall be.
