Apostles Fast Meditation - Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas

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 Christian freedom is not merely a “freedom from” the world; it is also a positive experience and a positive dignity. It is not only a power to choose, but also the very likeness of God in man, unattainable except by communion with God. Once this communion is given, the world cannot take it back. In this sense Christian freedom is the joy and the dignity of slaves, of the persecuted, of the deprived, and of the humiliated, in other words of all those who are victims of this world, of its power, and of the determinism from which Christ freed man when He died on the Cross, and its meaning is best understood by those who are themselves suffering from the powerful.

—Protopresbyter John Meyendorff, Living Tradition