Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 2015

After the Word of God was revealed in the body and He made known to us His Father, then the deceit of the demons disappears and vanishes, while men and women, looking to the true divine Word of the Father, abandon idols and henceforth recognize the true God. This is a proof that Christ is God the Word and the Power of God. For since these human things cease yet the Word of Christ remains, it is clear to all that the things which cease are temporal, but the one who remains is God and the true Son and only-begotten Word of God.
These remarks, O lover of Christ, we briefly offer you as the rudiments and paradigm of the faith of Christ and His divine manifestation to us. But if you take the opportunity they present, and read the words of scripture, and really apply your mind to them, you will learn from them more completely and more clearly the accuracy of what has been said. For the scriptures were spoken and written by God through men versed in theology; and we have learned from the teachers of theology who are found therein, who were also witnesses of the divinity of Christ, and we pass on our knowledge to your own love of learning. You will learn also of Christ’s second glorious and truly divine manifestation to us, when He will come no more with simplicity but in His own glory, no more with humility but in His own greatness, no more to suffer but to bestow the fruit of His own cross on all – I mean the resurrection and incorruption – no more judged but judging all according to the works each one has done in the body, whether good or evil; for the good is reserved the kingdom of heaven, but for those who have done evil, eternal fire and outer darkness.
St. Athanasius the Great

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