An excerpt

"What am I going to do? What are the Church and each Christian to do in this world? What is our mission?
"To these questions there exist no answers in the form of practical 'recipes'. 'It all depends' on thousands of factors--and, too be sure all faculties of our human intelligence and wisdom, organization and planning, are to be constantly used. Yet--and this is the one 'point' we wanted to make in these pages-- 'it all depends' primarily on our being real witnesses to the joy and peace of the Holy Spirit, to that new life of which we are made partakers in the Church. The Church is the sacrament of the Kingdom--not because she possesses divinely instituted acts called 'sacraments', but because first of all she is the possibility given to man to see in and through this world the 'world to come', to see and to 'live' it in Christ. It is only when in the darkness of this world we discern that Christ has already 'filled all things with Himself' that these things, whatever they may be, are revealed and given to us full of meaning and beauty. A Christian is the one who, wherever he looks, finds Christ and rejoices in Him. And this joy transforms all his human plans and programs, decisions and actions, making all his mission the sacrament of the world's return to Him who is the life of the world."

Taken from For the Life of the World by Fr. Alexander Schmemann

Yours, in Christ, etc.

I Am Not A Hippie

Just so everyone is clear on that.