“Even if you found a whole treasure house full of gold and on account of it you were absent from church, your harm would be much greater as much as spiritual things are greater than material things because material things, even if they are many and flow abundantly, we don’t take to the next life; they are not transported with us to Heaven, and they won’t present themselves at that dreadful judgment seat of the Lord.”
(St. John Chrysostom on the importance of Church attendance)
 
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