It is indeed a wonderful thing to hear and see people come together, not only to give thanks to God, but also to see them live and chant and pray the Liturgy which is given to us. We come as Orthodox Christians to the Liturgy for a variety of reasons. This evening's Gospel gives us all of those answers. It is a gospel which makes no sense to the logic of the world. In our society we don't know how to forgive - we look to get even.
True forgiveness means forgetting, and washing the slate clean.
So, you see with our rational minds to do these things is almost impossible. And yet Christ demands it of each and every person - if we are to be worthy of this calling. It cannot be that same worldly state - like everything else. We are called to be transfigured and transformed . To alter our own ego and path, and to place our lives on the path of Jesus Christ.