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“The…Divine Liturgy…includes the following phrase which is a stumbling block for common sense: “remembering then this saving commandment, the Cross, the tomb, the Resurrection on the third day, the Ascension into heaven, the sitting at the right hand and the second and glorious coming again, offering to Thee Thine own of Thine own, we hymn Thee,” etc. To remember past events (the Cross, the Resurrection etc.) is “natural.” But to “remember” something that has not yet happened
Heaven, Hell, and Eternity
“...there is no place where God is not, and God’s love is for all human beings, including sinners. Hell is presented as the state of self-exclusion from communion with that Universal Love.” (Father John Zeyack) “Heaven and hell are a condition of relationship with God...Heaven and hell are in the same realm, and that hell is not separation from God symbolically or physically; hell is a place chosen. For one who hates God, being in the presence of God will be eternal suffering