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Text Box: goodness which is God. When spirituality is acquired and made a part of one’s every day life, social justice will of necessity proceed from that individual. Therefore, if one seeks to secure social justice from government, one must first seek to instill spirituality in the members of government. If one seeks to obtain social justice from an employer, one must first seek to instill spirituality in that employer and in each member of the employer’s management. And it must never be forgotten to seek to instill spirituality in those who are to receive that which the government dispenses in social justice, as must be the employee who is to receive social justice from the employer. Otherwise the recipient will not seek to receive in a just manner and will not give to the government and to the employer that which is also required by social justice. If both the dispensor and the recipient are not founded in spirituality there will be no social justice. The government will not just take care of those unable to care for themselves without being at fault, but will be forced to provide for the lazy. this will diminish the level of care available to those in need without fault. The employer will be forced to pay wages even to those who do not truly earn them, diminishing that which is available to those who have earned. Eventually an antagonism will develop between those who fund the government and those who unworthily receive from the government; and between the employer and the unworthy servant. This will, as history has shown, break down into an antagonism between the tax payers and the welfare recipients; and between the employers and the employees; both without realization the antagonism was caused by lack of spirituality.

Text Box: Since true spirituality can only be found in and emanate from the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ, and thence from those who worthily receive it, it is a waste of time to seek social justice without including in the attempt a continual attempt to instill spirituality and an acknowledgment of the continual need to receive the Body and Blood of Christ. Not some imitation thereof, but the real Thing. Since only those who have true Priesthood in unbroken Apostolic Succession have the ability to confect the Eucharist, the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ, true social justice, true resolution of all of humankind’s problems, and real salvation, can only be found in the true Church. The Orthodox Church in its many Jurisdictions is the definition of assuredness of validity of Priestly Apostolic Succession and therefore the ability to provide the Body and Blood of Christ, that they may be eaten by the faithful. So too is it with a few other Churches, such as the Armenian, and at least some if not the majority of the Coptic, and several others. But some have recently brought their “corporate” belief in the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist into question. And others, such as the Anglican Communion, clearly denounced and disclaimed the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and forsook the Priesthood and Sacramental Holy Orders hundreds of years ago. Evangelicals, Pentecostalist, Baptist, and others even go to the extent of preaching the soda crackers and grape juice they use in a communion service represent but are not actually the Body and Blood of Christ. In this they are accurate, for in this they acknowledge they do not have the ability to confect the Eucharist.

Text Box: But do they not also thereby condemn themselves for not eating an drinking the Body and Blood of Christ. For were not His words : “except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.” ? What happens to otherwise good people who do not consume the actual and real Body and Blood of Christ? These may be good intellectually, good emotionally, but they are not good spiritually. The expression, “otherwise good,” is appropriate to them for they truly are “otherwise”. What happens to them is up to God. It is God’s decision. It is God’s right, and His alone. But we can effect that decision by praying for such people. In praying for such people we create the potential for their accepting Christ on His terms rather than on their terms. Since He is God and they are not, His terms are the important terms, and theirs are without merit. Those who do not regularly receive the Flesh and Blood of Christ become stiff necked. Those who have never received the actual, real Flesh and Blood of Christ are the most stiff necked. Intellectually they can have great knowledge. Emotionally they can engage in the greatest, most compelling, exhausting, and difficult good. Yet they are spiritually without life for they have not done that which they had the ability to do. They have not eaten Christ’s Flesh and drunk His blood. To be enabled to follow Christ’s command that we eat His Flesh and drink His blood, these people would have to become members of the Orthodox Church, or one the few other parts of the True Church. To become members of the Orthodox Church they would have to do things required by the Church, which things were made requirements by Christ and under His direction. And they would have to stop doing other things because the Church requires they not be done and those requirements were also established under the command of God and under

Text Box: It is for this reason those who seek social justice without first seeking to instill spirituality in those who are to dispense and those who are to receive social justice, especially that which is prompted by the emotions, are doomed to fail, for they have not sought social justice in conjunction with

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