91. Dragon and Phoenix – Signs & Symbols
92. Your Map & Compass
93. The Labarum
94. Harmonious Strings
Selections from the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch:
“Hence you should act in accord with the bishop’s mind, as you surely do. Your presbytery, indeed, which deserves its name and is a credit to God, is as closely tied to the bishop as the strings to a harp. Wherefore your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians, par. 4-6, ANE, vol. 1.
“As, then, the Lord did nothing apart from the Father, either by himself of through the apostles, since he was united with him, so you must do nothing apart from the bishop and the presbyters. Do not try to make anything appear praiseworthy by yourselves, but let there be in common one prayer, one petition, one mind, one hope in love, in blameless joy—which is Jesus Christ, than whom nothing is better.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch, “Letter to the Magnesians,” The Apostolic Fathers, ed. by Jack N. Sparks (Minneapolis, MN: Light and Life, 1978), 88.
Selection from St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ:
“As the Holy Trinity our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God in indivisible, we also must be indivisible , as though we were one man, one mind, one will, one heart, one goodness, without the smallest admixture of malice–in a word, one pure love, as God is Love. ‘That they may be one, ever as We are One.'”
St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God: Extracts from the Diary of St. John of Kronstadt (Archpriest John Iliytch Sergieff, trans. by E. E. Goulaeff (Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 2000), 88.