If Christ were to walk in this world today...

(Icon is of Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose.)

If Christ were to walk in this world today, do you know what would happen to Him? He would be placed in a mental institution and given psycho-therapy, just as would His Saints. The world would crucify Him today just as it did two 2000 years ago, for the world has not learned a thing, except more devious forms of hypocrisy. And what would happen if, in one of my classes at the university, I would one day tell my students that all the learning of this world is of no importance beside the duty of worshipping God, accepting the God-man who died for our sins, and preparing for the life of the world to come? They would probably laugh at me, and the university officials, if they found out, would fire me—for it is against the law to preach the Truth in our universities. We say that we live in a Christian society, but we do not: we live in a society. (Attributed to Fr. Seraphim Rose)

The dandelion

The kingdom of heaven is like a dandelion, which at the end of its life sends up a stalk upon which its seed hangs. See Who the Seed is, and what the stalk is. When a breath or wind comes, the seed is carried off the stalk and buried in the ground. In those places with good soil, a new dandelion with the same image grows, which in turn yields many more seeds. And this seed spreads until it fills an entire field.