«It is not enough to make of the world a liveable place, our vocation is to make of it the place where God can dwell»
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh  In detail

“I think it is not untrue to say that of all world outlooks Christianity is the most materialistic. It is not only world outlook which does not simply recognize the existence of matter, but sees matter as endowed with an eternal vocation, called to be in God as completely and perfectly as man – a world outlook that recognizes in matter such greatness that it is capable of uniting to the Godhead without ceasing to be itself.”  In detail

“We are part of a fallen world, and it is in and through this turmoil that we must find our way. We are walking on the sea on which St Peter walked, and we meet Christ at the very centre of the storm, the point of equipoise of all its violence.”  In detail

Reality is more than truth... Reality is both what we know and all that we do not know. Only one occasion in human history sees the moment when truth and reality coincide. That moment is in the incarnation of Christ, because he is God, the plenitude, the fullness of creation, and at the same time the perfect expression of it. (T.S. Eliot Lectures; God and Man)  In detail

These words of St Irenaeus, quoted so often by Metropolitan Anthony, speak of a fullness of life which he himself never ceased trying to live.  In detail

The conference will reflect on the influence of metropolitan Anthony’s spiritual vision on our lives in our contemporary situation.  In detail

The conference is held to mark the 10th anniversary of metropolitan Anthony’s death.  In detail

From the earliest days of his conversion to Christ metropolitan Anthony never ceased to bear witness to the exultant joy of what he had discovered. And throughout his life as pastor and priest he was an instrument, a voice, for the ‘Word of God’, which in his own words, “illumines our minds and makes of us not only preachers, but witnesses of God’s Kingdom.”  In detail

“…Church is an extraordinary place, it is the place where God and man have already met, it is a body, an organism simultaneously and equally human and divine…”  In detail

This peace of which Metropolitan Anthony spoke, - a peace that was the gift of God, the outpouring of His divine love - filled him in such a way that people who met him, believers and un-believers alike, were themselves filled with the longing to seek it. How can we open our hearts to receive this peace?  In detail

“No-one can turn towards eternity if he has not seen in the eyes or on the face of at least one person the shining of eternal life.”   In detail

“St Irenaeus of Lyons says that the vocation of mankind is to be so united to Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit that in Christ we should all and singly become the Only-begotten son of the Father.”  In detail

“We should try to live in such a way that if the Gospels were lost they could be rewritten by looking at us.”  In detail

The aim of the conference is to outline the main features of metropolitan Anthony’s legacy.  In detail