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Obedience as the Path to Freedom (2) (Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †)

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Now a new generation in born with Jesus Christ as its spiritual founder. The purpose of this generation is to give its freedom to God through obedience, and, moreover, obedience not due to coercion or obligation but to love. ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?’ (Rom. 8, 35). Saint Paul submits to whatever happens, so that he won’t be separated from the love of Christ. This shows that the essence of obedience is love. Within this new, grace-filled state, the children of obedience and love attain the boundaries of true freedom. Freedom from egotism, from the passions, from fear, from the devil, ...

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