Archbishop Athanasius at the anniversary of a parish in London: Christ is the saving ship of lifetranslated
His Eminence Father Athanasius, Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, served on Sunday in the "Holy Voivode Stephen the Great" Parish in Harrow, a town located in the metropolitan area of London. On the occasion of the anniversary of its establishment, the hierarch emphasized that "Christ is the saving ship of life".
His Eminence explained the Gospel story about walking on the sea, showing that the Church is the place where man finds salvation and deliverance.
"Today's Sunday is also an icon of the discovery of the Church, which is the Body of Christ - He, the living ship, in which, if anyone stands firm, he will not taste death forever."
The miracle was alive and working The Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland explained that the storm at sea is the image of the trials that every human goes through.
"The sea in which Peter was to drown is also the sea of our life, in which we often drown in temptations. The sea is turbulent, as often our life, precisely because it is covered by the darkness of ignorance and sins, but also of forgetting God. In all of this, only Christ is the ship of escape - the Holy Church, to...
