Orthodox Quote for February 15

“The term “saint” or “sanctity” (holiness) is something entirely irrelevant and foreign to our time, and to the civilization and the quests of contemporary Man.  Which parents nowadays have the ambition of making their children “saints”?  Which of our schools and educational programs cultivate sanctity or present it as a vision and as a model?  The “successful” person of our time…is the one who can achieve wealth, comforts and social emergence…”
(Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas in ‘Sanctity a Forgotten Vision’)

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