These Ones Have the Large Churches…
Thoughts- Bishop Philaretos
St. Gregory the Theologian writes, “These ones (the heretics, especially then the Arianists) have the houses, but we have the Dweller (the One who should be present in places dedicated to God).”
Never forget that when the newly elected and ordained Patriarch of Constantinople St. Gregory the Theologian arrived at his see, the Orthodox didn’t have a single church building and thus he began to serve liturgy in the villa of a female cousin of his.
