Christ loved us ‘unto the end’ and the power of His love destroyed the bonds of death. We see from our everyday life that human relationships break down from one day to the next, often for trivial reasons. Yet, whoever is attracted by the humble love of Christ and unites with Him, cries out with the Apostle Paul as one who has lost his wits: ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ The martyrs, through their blood, and the ascetics, through their tears, give witness that this love is stronger than death. Their earthly vessel may have been dissolved, but ‘not an hair of their head did perish.’ No one could touch their hypostasis, nor destroy their ‘house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens’.
— Excerpt from: At the Doors of Holy Lent (p. 190) • Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)
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