Love “Turns the Impossible into the Possible.”
By michelle | October 9, 2009
St Tikhon of Moscow said, “For love does not seek its own, it labors, sweats, watches to build up the brother: nothing is inconvenient to love, and by the help of God it turns the impossible into the possible…Love believes and hopes…It is ashamed of nothing…As an animal cannot exist without bodily warmth, So no good deed can be alive without true love; it is only the pretence of a good deed.”
Today we celebrate the life of St. Tikhon, and my husband reminded me of a church that we visited two summers ago in Marblehead, Ohio, while we were vacationing with my family. The church was consecrated by Bishop Tikhon in 1906, and he conducted the first first services in that new church. You can still see the four main icons of the iconostas, which were donated to the parish by Czar Nicholas II. In 1898, St Tikhon became head of the Orthodox Church in America, and did much to promote the spread of Orthodoxy through the establishment of many churches.
He was a good pastor, who devoted himself entirely to the church’s cause, he called upon the clergy to do the same: “Devote all your energy to preaching the word of God and the truth of Christ, especially today, when unbelief and atheism are audaciously attacking the Church of Christ.”
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Mimi on October 12, 2009 at 1:54 pm.
What a beautiful church. Our parish’s Chapel in the Foothills (which we have outgrown, so now visit now and then) was also consecrated by St. Tikhon.
Holy St. Tikhon, pray to God for us.