18 April 2021
See With the Eyes of Faith
All
of you, then, who have deserved to he enrolled in this heavenly book,” bring
forward a generous faith and a strong reason. What takes place here requires
faith and the eyes of the soul, so that you pay heed not only to what is seen,
but that you make the unseen visible from the seen. This is what the eyes of
faith can do. The eyes of the body can see only those things which come under
their perception, but the eyes of faith are quite the opposite. For they see
nothing of visible things, but the invisible things they see as if they were
lying before their eyes. This is faith: to see the invisible as if it were
visible. St. Paul says: Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for,
the evidence of things that are not seen.
Saint
John Chrysostom
Baptismal Instructions, p46
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