THE GREATEST HONOR POSSIBLE

THE GREATEST HONOR POSSIBLE

     "There is no greater honor or calling on earth than to be an Orthodox Christian. When the judge-torturer Severus asked the young Peter Apselamus:  "Of what family are you?" He replied: "I am a Christian." The judge questioned him further: "Of what rank are you?" To this he replied: "There is no higher or finer rank that of a Christian." Father John of Kronstadt writes: "The whole world is as a thistledown in comparison with the soul of a Christian man." A Christian is an earthen vessel into which are poured godly strength and light. If that vessel be placed on a king’s golden thrones or tucked away in some beggar’s hovel, its worth, is thereby neither magnified nor diminished. Does not gold have the same worth, whether wrapped in a silk scarf or a cabbage leaf?"                                                                            Prologue of Ochrid