“St. John Chrysostom says that the Church lives only in times of persecution.  In another place he says that the worst kind of persecution the Church can endure is the lack of persecution.  This is what we have witnessed in the past twenty years.  The Church is petted, warm and comfortable.  Nobody bothers it.”
(Archmandrite Ignatii Pakulov in ‘Napravo’)

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