Doctrine and Life

On the Sundays of Lent, the Church urges us to focus on the two aspects of commitment, doctrine and life. What I want to emphasize today is that the ultimate purpose of this focus is to embrace orthodoxy regardless of circumstances. Nothing we know has any meaning if we do not believe that orthodoxy is indivisible. Dogma is not divorced from life. Heresy is not merely verbal, but also behavioral. Speaking on the first Sunday about the icon and then on the second about the Uncreated Light is a discourse on reclaiming that eternity is to be lived from now. Behavioral mistakes, which undoubtedly trivialize our thinking, tragically lead us to voluntarily separate ourselves from eternity. This compels us to delve deep into our lives, to examine the mistakes we have become accustomed to or that we regard as common. Abandoning the life and activities of the Church, neglecting prayer and doctrine... it's not permissible to hastily consider them as minor mistakes. All mistakes are deadly. Lent exists, so that we commit to the life ordained for us by God and be faithful to it.