Romanian Monastery "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." —Matthew 5:14 One of the paradoxes of Orthodox missiology is that in order to reach the world with God's message, the saints have often been sent into the wilderness. From there, their lives radiate the power and grace of God in such a way that the world flocks to them, and "the wilderness blossoms like a rose." For the fullness of the Christian gospel that has been preached by Orthodox Fathers and Mothers through the centuries does not consist simply in intellectual propositions, but in the power of lives transfigured, "deified," through communion with God. "That . . . which we ...
