Reasons for Going to Church
FR. COSTA’S WEEKLY MESSAGE, June 14, 2009


“However, if you did not do it before, now, therefore, show concern and let everyone together with his own enter into the Church, the father with his son, the son with his offspring, the husbands with their wives, the wives with their husbands, the master with his slave, the brother with his brother, the friend with his friend, each one inciting and exhorting the other to come to this Assembly. Rather, not only our friends, but let us invite even our enemies to this common treasure of the goods. The enemy, if he sees you to have such concern, will undoubtedly cease to loathe you.”

[The Church’s Identity Established through Images according to Saint John Chrysostom, by Protopresbyter Gus George Christo, Ph.D., Patristic Theological Library 2, Orthodox Research Institute, Rollinsford, New Hampshire, 2006; pg. 123.]