St. Justin Popovich: Man in the God-Man

 Everything that man is and everything that is of man perfectly lives, works, thinks, feels, is human, immortal, divine, and eternal only and solely in the God-man and through the God - man. Only through the God-man Christ is man a divine majesty and the highest value next to God in all worlds. For this reason God became man, and has remained the God-1nan for all eternity. With the God-man Christ, all that is God’s has become 1nan’s, human, ours, so that each of us individually and all of us assembled

together in the Divine-human body of Christ, the Church, might become god-men, having attained “to the perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:12-13).

+St. Justin Popovich, in Man and the God-Man

Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra: Christ in the midst

 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