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Which Are the Paths Leading to the Kingdom of Heaven?

    • Photo: Bogdan Zamfirescu

      Photo: Bogdan Zamfirescu

Starting from different actions, different places, we heed to reach a common shelter: the Kingdom of Heaven.

Thus, we should have only one common path: Christ’s commandments that lead us to Heaven and God. Because even if the [Biblical] Word depicts different paths, one path is divided according to our strength and purpose and not to His nature. Because, starting from many different actions, from many different places, we heed to reach a common shelter: the Kingdom of Heaven.

And the acts and paths of the man who follows God, must be understood as spiritual virtues in the people who started to fulfil a common goal, that of reaching together, even if they had a different start, only one citadel: The Kingdom of Heaven, and to become worthy to rule together with Christ, as subject of only one King: Father and God.

(Sfântul Simeon Noul Teolog, Cateheze. Scrieri II, Editura Deisis, Sibiu, 2003, p. 22)