The Orthodox maintain, as ecclesial bodies and not merely as the opinions or preferences of certain members, the transcendality of Divine Revelation in relation to human understanding, the definitions of the first seven Ecumenical Councils, the dogmatic principle and corpus as the context of day-to-day faith and life, and the sense that salvation is more than temporal alone.
The Orthodox maintain, as ecclesial bodies and not merely as the opinions or preferences of certain members, a classical liturgical life, individual and collective devotion to the Mother of God, individual and collective devotion to the Angels and the Saints.
And the Orthodox maintain, as ecclesial bodies and not merely as the opinions or preferences of certain members, the Threefold Apostolic Order, that Order’s essential maleness, the monastic heart of the Church’s life in the world, and the ascetic heart of all true spirituality.
We must make ourselves worthy of them in practice by our own return to each and all of those principles.
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