Met. Hilarion interviewed by North Texas radio station

H/T: AOI

(WRR) - February 11, 2011 Highland Park Presbyterian Church welcomes Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, an archbishop and Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, February 10-13. He will preach to the congregation on Sunday, February 13, with a performance of his composition St. Matthew Passion at 5:30 pm.

Met. Hilarion's lecture at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX

(mospat.ru) - No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in with the bosom of the Father, has made him known (John.1:18). These words have a truly profound and universal meaning. Indeed no human eyes have ever seen God the Father – the invisible God who has neither a physical body nor material form. But for people to strengthen their faith in God and to know that He not only exists in reality but also hears their prayers and is ready to come to their aid, the Father sent His Only-Begotten Son who became God incarnate and revealed to us His invisible Father. Only after the incarnation of the Word, when God became one of us, lived a human life, suffered and died on the cross, was raised from the dead to open for us the way to the Heavenly Kingdom and to raise us together with Himself, did human beings come to know God in the real sense.

Before Christ’s coming, people did not know that God could become so close to them and be in full solidarity with them. They did not know that He loved human beings so much that He was ready to accept suffering and death for each one of us. He Himself bridged the abyss that separated us from Him – a chasm which we could never have overcome on our own. There is no clearer evidence of God’s love for humans than the cross on which God incarnate Himself was crucified. And there is no greater sacrifice that could have been offered by the Lord for the sake of humanity...

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