The very architectural (!) frame of the Western Society was designed in ways that everything becomes equal: all things are nicely aligned on the same street, and all streets are forming a grid of precise patterns. There is no centre to start with, but a number of important institutions, such as banks, schools, churches, shops and restaurants, which were all built next to each other… The normality of a village or a town built in Orthodox lands, with the Church in the middle (the Heart of that inhabited place) offered a different distribution, around that centre, which could also have included some other important Orthodox associations, spreading on rays and forming concentric circles…

Obviously, in these settlements from America, Canada, Australia and New Zeeland, the Orthodox Church could be found in a place that was available, sometimes in old Protestant worshiping structures… As Orthodox, one must adapt without letting anything to be removed from the Divine Teaching of our Holy Church. But many times, this adaptation goes too far, by borrowing heretical “teachings” and inviting the “church of the day” into a Sacred Space. But this is another topic…

Many of our Orthodox Fathers say that the upcoming developments leading to the end of this world should not be strange to the faithful. If one is serious about own salvation, that is to look to the eternal life which is to come, one must pay attention to own spiritual development, helped out by the spiritual father. All deformities that Orthodoxy is to fix are so many, and this number increased exponentially in the last ten to fifteen years. In the realms of education, health, science and family (considering such sections according to a government perspective), all that amount of issues and problems, completely away from an Orthodox perspective, would overwhelm anybody. It is known that if a wise man wants to address any difficulty, he will be confronted with the whole scheme which produced this antichristian frame work that made that trouble, in the first place.

Therefore, the space itself which is not quite Orthodox makes everybody a bit unsure of the real meaning of life in an Orthodox land. We can’t do much about this, but one has to make some pilgrimages to those spaces before they will be fully destroyed or unrecognisable, in that Orthodox sense. At present times, a total attachment to Orthodoxy is almost impossible, according to … surroundings. But what did Christ say to Saint Apostle Thomas? “Because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed; blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed”.