The Church: On Earth As It Is In Heaven | Lord's Prayer | Ancient Russian Wooden Church Design | Orthodox Christian Hardcover JournalThe Church is not a wall and a roof; it is the faithful themselves. The Church is heaven. + St. John Chrysostom The Church is an image of God because it realizes in itself the same union of the faithful that God realizes in Himself between the divine Persons. It is heaven on earth. + St. Maximus the Confessor The Church is the earthly heaven wherein the heavenly God dwells and moves. + St. Symeon the New Theologian The Church is already heaven: where

or worldly glory

and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself

the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God

she also hath conceived a son in her old age

and my Father is the husbandman

Verse 4 is singled out for representation in the image due to what it’s pointing to

The constant movement of the mind prevents it from entering into the heart

then I am strong

Looking for a thicker shirt

and my sin is ever before me

prefiguring the dimming of the heavenly lights when the Master suffered in the flesh upon the Cross

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