You Must Plan to Go to Church Every Week - A Homily for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers

In discussing the geneaology of Christ, Abp. Irineos discusses how the complementary genaologies of Matthew and Luke are important to our understanding of the incarnation, and how God's uniting of divinity to humanity in the incarnation calls us to unite our humanity to his divinity in our struggle for salvation. Understanding then the place of the Church as the Body of Christ, he urges Orthodox Christians to redouble their efforts to unite themselves with Christ as participants of His grace-filled mysteries in the Church.