What, then, is our gathering together in the Liturgy, our membership in the Church? When two or three of you are gathered together, you can become Christ, because "where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in the midst of them" (Mt 18:20). It doesn't have the sense of some fourth person joining us, but signifies who we are together, it is what we become when we are together, because in the midst of you, where you are, is Christ. So you cease to be yourselves and together become Christ.
+Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, from The Way of the Spirit, Reflections on Life in God, Chapter 6 Awaiting Pentecost
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