Redeeming The Time

In the Gospel on Bright Monday, St. John the Baptist described in a mystical way the incarnation when he said: “He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's thong I am not worthy to unloose.” These words describe the intimate love God has for man and we contrast them with the relatively recent heresy, somewhat more than 500 years old, in which God is described as a God of anger and judgment, and that the Son died on the cross to appease the anger of the Father. This Gospel refutes this heresy, which is completely foreign to Orthodox Christianity.