Reverence in every way images of living men, in order that you may duly reverence the image of God. For the image of the Lord Jesus Christ is the human image. He who does not respect the human image will not respect the image of God.

Saturday Before Meatfare

"On the same day, the most Divine Fathers appointed a commemoration of all those who, from ages past, have piously fallen asleep, in the hope of resurrection unto life eternal."

Orthodoxy refuses to concur with a conception of the Church that has become increasingly common in the West (Roman Catholicism and Protestantism) since the Reformation--and that is the tendency to strictly demarcate the Heavenly and Earthly Church (Church Triumphant and Church Militant) into separate entities. In such a view if we may generalize and caricature a little, the 'invisible' Church is thought of as the glorious, and glorified, communion of Saints--all that Christ intended His Church to be, while the 'visible' earthly Church staggers on through history, mired in compromise, scandals and corruption constantly requiring some beneficent reformer, or other new committee of action, to rescue it from its present generational decadence, so as to reform it once again, and polish up the battered paintwork so that, at least, it might not scandalize the world.