Jacob became a God-fighter, which translates to ‘Israel’. But ‘God–fighter’ is a negative concept, a God-fighting one… How is it that the church is called a bogoboritsa? Truly so! Her struggle, like Gethsemane, is a struggle in love: when the Most High, diminishing, wants us to get the better of Him, just as Jacob got the better of ‘Someone...
The Good Shepherd
We are the children of Christ, who constantly listened with sensitive spiritual hearing to the heavenly Father.