“Many in the west who seek God imagine they must do it alone through their moral transformation. But the Church is not an invisible or moral grouping; it is the real, identifiable Church. We are deified as the Body of Christ through the sacramental life of the Church in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church is the one and only place where man may be deified. It is the only source of God’s sacramental grace. And any claims by other Christian groups to share in this grace are false. There is One Church, the Orthodox Church is the Church of the Apostles, the two are identical, there is no
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