Love is one of many themes for Meatfare Sunday. Love that is not just a mere humanitarian concern for abstract justice and the anonymous poor, but concrete and personal love for any human person. Yes, we are called to care for mankind in a general way and to press for a more humane society, but Christian love is something more – something much more personal.
Christian love is the “possible impossibility”. We must see Christ in other men and women whoever they are. People whom God has introduced us to, if just for a moment, that we might begin an eternal companionship in God and through God.
-part of a series adapted from “Great Lent – Journey to Pascha” by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Diocese of the South
Ecumenical Patriarchate
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
IOCC
JD Publications & Services
Moscow Patriarch
OCMC
Orthodox Christian Network
SCOBA
The DLucs Collection
The Order of Saint Andrew