Today, the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent, in the Church we honor the memory of St. Gregory Palamas. As a theologian, St. Gregory is famous for defending the Orthodox faith and explaining how we participate in the Divine Life. He is noted for having helped explicate the theology of salvation as deification/theosis. Many Orthodox saints helped to explain theosis, or reveal it through their own lives. St. Isaac of Ninevah writes:
We give thanks to You, O God, for Your gift to the world, (a gift) whose richness created beings are not capable of describing; seeing that I too am part of that (world), may I not begrudge my portion of thanksgiving which I owe to You. For this reason I will praise You and confess Your name. You have given Your entire treasure to the world: if You gave the Only-Begotten from Your bosom and from the throne of Your Being for the benefit of all, what further do you have which You have not given to Your creation? The world has become mingled with God, and creation and Creator have become one!
Praise to You for Your inscrutable purpose: truly this mystery is vast. Glory to You for Your mysteries which are hidden from us. Make me worthy, Lord to taste of this great mystery which is hidden and concealed, (a mystery) of which the world is not yet worthy of perceiving. Maybe You indicated something of it to Your saints who live in the body above the world and who are at all times above the impulses of the flesh.
O Christ who are covered with light as though with a garment, who for my sake stood naked in front of Pilate, clothe me with that might which You caused to overshadow the saints, whereby they conquered this world of struggle. May Your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me, and lead me above the world to be with You.
(Isaac of Nineveh: The Second Part, pp. 13-15)
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