I John 4:20-5:21, Mark 15:1-15
And the victory that overcomes the world, c This is our faith (I John 5:4), the Christian faith. Conquer the world, what does this mean? Not exterminate all those who love the world or destroy and destroy everything that is loved by the world. It means that while living among those who love the world and move among the preferred uses of the world we live in and are strangers to everything and everyone.
Once you have rejected the world and everything in the world, you have this action by itself overcome the world. Who teaches you to reject the world and gives you the strength for it? Our faith [Orthodox] gives strength.
It reveals the destructive power of the illusions of the world, and inspires the desire to break free of their nets. Then when someone decides to break those links, repents and approach the Mysteries of renewal (the baptism or repentance), faith allows him to feel mystically the sweetness of a life away the world, gentleness with which the pleasures of the world can in no way be compared.
Accordingly, a distaste for anything in the world remains in the heart, making it overcomes world. But in this mystical action, following which the disgust for the world is born, the power to remain firmly in disgust and alienation in the world is also provided, and it is a decisive and lasting victory.
Version French Claude Lopez-Ginisty
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