“The ascetics are Orthodoxy’s only missionaries. Asceticism is her only missionary school. Orthodoxy is ascetic effort and it is life, and it is thus by effort and by life that her mission is broadcast and brought about. The development of asceticism…this ought to be the inward mission of our Church amongst our people.”
St. Justin Popović (+1979), the great twentieth century theologian of Serbia, examines what true God-inspired witness to the world is and how we can orient ourselves to Christ that we might be true Christians bringing light to those on darkness.
This text can be read here: http://archangelsbooks.com/articles/spirituality/InwardMission.asp
Many excellents texts by and about St. Justin can be found here: https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2017/06/saint-justin-popovich-resource-page.html
Troparion to St. Justin: “Let us honor with splendor the divinely inspired theologian, the wise Serb Justin, who by the scythe of the Holy Spirit hath thrashed the error of atheism and the insolence of the Latins, being a mystic of the God-man and lover of piety, crying out: Glory to Christ Who hath glorified thee, glory to Him Who hath crowned thee, glory to Him Who hath rendered thee a luminary to those who are in a state of darkness.”
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Wow, this is a extremely interesting & instructive selection from St. Justin's work! It strikes me especially because it's so applicable to our present time, & even touches on subjects & answers questions that I've recently been pondering…
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He seems to spend a long time renouncing nationhood, the distinction given to us by God. I agree that nationhood is a lower order, but national expression of faith in the Church is to be preserved.
Most want marriage as a secret desire to always have someone next to them for sexual pleasures. The male's sexual organ and the female's sexual organ are for, so that when the male and female meet and choose themselves by their own free will, they mate for the transmission of offspring. When these organs do something else, it is a sin. And for the inferiority complex of boys in terms of penis length: every woman needs a length that is directly equal to the length of her vagina. There are women who need 15 cm, there are those who need 18 cm, and etc. This is because every human has its own physiology and body proportions. Every human race has its own physiology. Due to the fact that there were many peoples in the same territory and they allowed this sin to mix their seed with another people(through knowledge or ignorance or under the influence of magic spells)for example a man from the original people in present-day Sweden territory with a girl from the original people in the territory of present-day Mongolia. In the same country there may be people with different body physiology, although according to their passport they are all Greek or Hungarian or Italian and etc..