This past Sunday, we reflected on what it truly means to call the Church Apostolic, and how this identity is deeply rooted in love—a love that is not abstract or passive, but incarnate, active, and renewing.
Drawing on Fr. Georges Florovsky’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Fr. Robert challenged us to see tradition not as something static or trapped in the past, but as a “living yeast,” a “germinated seed”—dynamic, fertile, and always interacting with the world around it.
This vision of tradition is one that engages with science, culture, the arts, and economics—not with fear or suspicion, but with openness and discernment, continually watered and pruned by the Holy Spirit to bear fruit.
We are called to keep this living tradition vibrant—not as guardians of a museum, but as cultivators in the vineyard of the Lord—so that the Church might truly draw everyone and everything into the living Body of Christ.