The Church is the greatest of God’s miracles. This is the place where God has made an appointment for us. We recall paradise and we ponder on the future Kingdom of Heaven here. We know not always exactly, that we ponder exactly on it. Someone, who has heard about it, will even quiver in their soul, saying “I want to live”. They consider that Kingdom of Heaven is somewhere there, behind a threshold of death. But all is genuinely on the contrary to what they think.

Once people had crucified Christ, and the enemy of people has been conquered, that they are through with Him, they have ranked Him among the dead. But He is risen from the dead, having won over the powers of death. His having won over death, He has won also our victory over death. He has also based the Church - the mystical organism incomprehensibly uniting terrestrial and heavenly, time and eternal, dead and alive. The Church is that place where the life is announced contrary to death. The Church is that place where we turn to, and we become from slaves to fleshly kings of spirit, the holy people, called to announce to this world, that God lives among us and is in us.

So what? Someone will say in response. Is it that the churches where in the mornings and evenings, on Sundays and holidays, are eternally weighed down grumbling and dissatisfied old women? Is it that place where they do not wait for us? Where it is so easy to encounter callousness, indifference, and even rudeness? Is it really the Church which was based by Jesus Christ that His disciples have spread worldwide? It is not easy to answer these questions. Not all of them can be quickly solved. But it is surely that they can not be solved from outside of the church. Only from within can we promote an understanding of what the Church should be. Therefore the poor eternal appearance should not push away us and furthermore to plunge us into despair. Inflamed by this despair, we reason to ourselves and to the depths of our soul, turning away from the people of God. For this reason it is impossible to hope, that the One who is in our soul, is God. Because God Himself has left the earth and has revealed to these people what are also which, it is possible even to the present, even though we seem so insignificant are looked down upon from the heights of Divine Greatness. And He has not even condescended, but He has literally come in us, having been born in human flesh. He has assimilated to us in all. Whether it is in His spirit then where is the pride to have contempt for the "lowly" people?

Therefore we shall enter the church whether or not we are worthy, but we all carry the name of the Church of Christ. Not in a building of a church, but in aesthetics, silence and awe, and in a church-society of the people collected here by God. Then and only then, certainly not we, but God will reveal Himself to us. He will reveal to us Himself if we shall desire only Him, having rejected any mirages, illusions, substitution. Therefore, trusting in the Church, trusting in its services, we shall see and accept the reality such as it is. The burden will be heavy, but it isn’t heavier than the Cross on which the Savior was crucified.

In the Orthodox Church there is such symbolical detail - the Royal Doors. There is no time, as we consider it, the Royal Doors were named doors into the church broadly. But, probably, when this church with the big foundation carried a name of the Church of Christ, when those who stood in it in the greater degree could refer to regal or a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a chosen people of God on earth. Now as though we are cast from the outside, the Royal Doors is only occasionally open for us... But it's open, and it reminds us, that nevertheless the Lord is among us, that nevertheless there is the Church, seen or invisible, collected or absent-minded, but she is and testifies to the Lord. If this not so our life is vain. Therefore, Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. (Ps.24:7-10)