Where do we stand?

Where  do  we  stand? Are we prepared to believe Christ's word? Are we
prepared,  captured  by  the  beauty,  the  ineffable, the unutterable
beauty of Christ's personality to follow Him at all risk? And risk, we
know,  is great: we will be reviled, we will be laughed at, we will be
strangers,  people will think that we are tramps on earth, not that we
are pilgrims of Heaven; but are we prepared to do this?

               Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
           THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS
                  5th of November 1989

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