{"id":409630,"date":"2022-12-26T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=409630"},"modified":"2022-12-26T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T19:03:51","slug":"bishop-of-canadas-christmas-pastoral-letter-christ-fulfills-restoration-of-human-nature-in-his-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/bishop-of-canadas-christmas-pastoral-letter-christ-fulfills-restoration-of-human-nature-in-his-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Canada’s Christmas Pastoral Letter: Christ fulfills restoration of human nature in His Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Christ accomplishes the restoration of the humanity in His Person. Man\u2019s nature becomes the temple and house of the Word of God,\u201d Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada says in his Pastoral Letter on the Nativity of our Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Each person fulfils its purpose by growing from the image of God to its likeness. This growth is done at the same time together, in communion, and relational, as much as internally and personally. The two are not opposed but complement each other because the Church assumes and includes both,\u201d His Grace explained.<\/p>\n

The hierarch wrote that “The Church means our community, of all of us, who build our lives based on Christ’s work done for us. Christ is the One who works in us through grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

To escape the slavery of sin, man “must run to Christ, must seek Him. There are four stages or essential elements that help man to get rid of passions and come closer to God:\u00a0faith, prayer, (self) knowledge and confession<\/em>,\u201d mentioned the Bishop of Canada.<\/p>\n

“The four steps help man to receive Christ again as the master of his life, as God, so that He can fulfil the restoration. For Christ is the One who restores everything in our human nature,\u201d the hierarch emphasized.<\/p>\n

“Faith<\/em>\u00a0is what keeps man on the right path and gives him the divine understanding of himself, his life, and the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Prayer<\/em>\u00a0is the permanent dialogue with the Creator and the familiarity that man acquires with the Author of the divine life lost by man through sin.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Knowing<\/em> the state in which man finds himself, already as a result of the cleansing and liberating work of grace, makes man understand the distance to the finality for which God created him and the need to grow from the image of God to his likeness with Him, which means his fulfilment,\u201d added His Grace Ioan Casian.<\/p>\n

“And\u00a0the confession<\/em> is the manifestation of the understanding of the fact that the One who fulfils everything in human life in the direction of restoration and salvation is Christ. I confess Him. Through Him I fulfil myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada concluded his letter by wishing the faithful “O s\u0103rb\u0103toare a Na\u0219terii Domnului \u00eentru credin\u021b\u0103, cu pace \u0219i d\u0103rnicie!\u201d<\/p>\n

Full text here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo source: Facebook \/ Episcopia Canadei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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