Christ as Father

St Silouan the Athonite

(Icon by Leonid Ouspensky 1971)

"In his recognition of the Lord as the closest,

most precious, most fatherly of Fathers,

the Staretz used to say that

'The Holy Spirit has made us His kin.'

By His coming into the soul the Holy Spirit makes man kin

with God, so that in a mighty sweep of conviction

the soul addresses the Lord as 'Father.' "

- Saint Silouan the Anthonite

by Archimandrite Sophrony

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