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The Truth of Our Faith (Lesson 4): On the Veneration of the Saints and Angels

Orthodox Ethos

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The Importance of Faith in Christ

There's a great essay by St. Euste in Popovich, Introduction to the Lives of the Saints. He says what are Christians? Christians are Christ bearers and possessors of eternal life. The saints are the most perfect Christians, but they have been sanctified to the highest degree with asceticism. They've gone from the image to the likeness. And them is nothing of themselves, but holy, rather holy and in everything the Lord Christ. All that they have is first Christ and then theirs.

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