It’s a condition
31 May 2023True worship of the Creator results in love of the created. You can’t truly and properly love people unless you’ve been fired by the theanthropic love of Christ in the furnace of worship and the liturgy, a condition of which is, of course, our own ascetic effort, if we’re to partake worthily in it.
Archimandrite George, Abbot of Grigoriou (†)