Редакција
Saint Justin Popović
Excerpts from the book АЗБУЧНИК БОГОЧОВЕЧНИХ МИСЛИ АВЕ ЈУСТИНА ПОПОВИЋА, edited by Nevenka Pjevač, Belgrade, 2001
Translated from Serbian by Zoran Siriški
APOSTLESHIP
What is apostleship? Realizing the work of God. (4)
What is an apostle? The servant of Church. And apostleship? Serving the Church, for salvation is serving the Church. As for serving the Church, it consists of obedience to the Church. Because it is – the secret of secrets, the holy of holies, the gospel of gospels, all-secret, all-holy, all-gospel. (15, 113)
What is the grace of apostleship? All those divine powers necessary for successfully preaching the Gospel: divine wisdom, the gifts of wonder making, prophecy, healing, utterance; everything that makes apostles from common people and what they as people would never be able to possess by themselves and out of themselves. (17,29)
Apostleship includes exactly that: permanently feeling oneself as sent by Lord the Christ, as a bearer of His godmanly miraculous all-power and salvific teachings. (9,295)
It is easy to be a messenger of man, any man; a messenger of people, any people. Being a messenger of God, though, is both frightening and magnificent: frightening for the responsibility it entails, magnificent for the purpose of the mission. (12,261)
