The Faithful and Secularism, Part Two

In the second part of his reflection on secularism, Metropolitan Saba warns of what happens when prayer weakens and ritual replaces the sanctifying life: the Church risks becoming a mere institution of this age, even a high-caliber humanitarian one, while losing her true mission of raising man toward the Kingdom of God. He examines how activism and fundamentalism are both betrayals of the Gospel, drawing on Father Alexander Schmemann, the witness of Mother Teresa, and the warning of the prophet Jeremiah, and calls the faithful back to a living spirit of prayer so that worldliness loses its grip and the Church remains truly the Church of Christ.

Share This: