While Orthodox hesychasm appears to be an abstract, unpractical and utopian state, it is in essence very practical, true and realistic, precisely because it speaks of the transformation of man’s body and, of course, of the whole man. Its veracity is seen in the bodies of the saints, which receive the deifying energies of God, and in the relics of the saints, in which the presence of the uncreated deifying energy is manifest. Moreover, the relics manifest the deification of the body as well, and this is proof of the existence of the deifying energy also in the person’s soul. Therefore we can say that a purpose and work of the Church is to make relics.
Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos)
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The making of relics
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Jacob, can you give me the information of where this quote comes from? I read it a few years ago and wrote it down, but I could not remember where it was from.
It's from "St. Gregory Palamas as Hagiorite". I myself read it online from given source.
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