Quotes of the Day for March 30, 2026 – Thoughts on the ways we encounter Christ
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“…the Eucharist shows that all of life is potentially sacramental as a means of entrance into, and personal participation in, the eschatological reign. God intends every bit of creation for communion with Him, and calls human persons to manifest and encounter that communion in every dimension of their existence. A eucharistic view of life goes beyond the liturgy itself to the quest for full communion with the Trinity in holiness…There is simply no way around the basic truth that how we relate to our neighbors reveals how we relate to our Lord. What we do for even the most miserable and inconvenient people we encounter in life, we do for Christ. And what we refuse to do for them, we refuse to do for our Savior. Our salvation is in becoming more like Him as we find the healing of our souls by cooperating with His grace…every encounter with those who bear God’s image is an encounter with Christ that anticipates our ultimate judgment, which will reveal whether we have become living icons of His healing and restoration of the human person.” (Fr. Philip LeMasters)
“God created the cosmos to reveal Himself to us. Our experience of the created world is also a way for us to encounter and experience our Creator. Thus the physical universe is not opposed to the spiritual rather it is a way for us to encounter divinity. Liturgical worship is a way for us to experience the known universe in its spiritual nature.” (Fr. Ted Bobosh)
“… God is not a concept to be grasped, but a Person to be met. And that’s an important thing. Our faith is an encounter with a Person, not a concept—the God-Man Jesus Christ, the God Whom we know personally with detail; not some wishy-washy abstract thing, but the God Who comes into this world to come in contact with us. And if you engage Him in a real relationship of prayer, you understand this.” (Fr. John Meyendorff, Fr. Timothy Hojnicki)
“Every mask covers the true image of God in me. Because of the masks with all their layers of paint, I cannot be seen as I truly am, and even I myself cannot see His true likeness in me. And as we are relational beings by nature, the ability or inability to see and be seen works from both sides. This means that when I look at another person, or at any part of God’s creation, because of the spiritual blindness the layers of my masks have created, I fail to see and therefore cannot truly encounter the other…every encounter with every person is an encounter with the person as the image of God…I steal from God when I take His image and separate it from its physical manifestation: I steal the image of God. I also steal from the other person when I close my eyes to the person’s true ultimate significance and regard them as flesh, which I manipulate for my own purposes.” (Andrew Williams)
“An encounter with God always results in renewal. It has been this way for centuries, throughout the history of Christianity. Peter, who passionately cried out, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matthew 16:16), and Saul, who first became blind and then regained his eyesight through the action of that same uncreated Light—both of them bore testimony to the renewal at the dawn of the Christian era. Therefore, Paul, as he shared the innermost thoughts with his disciple Titus, knew what he was talking about: ‘For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another: But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior’ (Titus 3:3-6).” (Priest Valery Dukhanin)
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