"Who...can differentiate the worldly from the heavenly in the human soul, who can tell where the image of God ends and the heaviness of human flesh begins! In communing with the world in the person of each individual human being, we know that we are communing with the image of God, and, contemplating that image, we touch the Archetype-we commune with God...The liturgy outside the church is our sacrificial ministry in the church of the world, adorned with living icons of God, our common ministry, an all-human sacrificial offering of love, the great act of our God-manly union, the united prayerful breath of our God-manly spirit... and it seems to me that this mysticism of human communion is the only authentic basis for any external Christian activity."
+ St Maria of Paris
From: Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings, 79-82.
