Often anger is evoked in us because of pride. This again is a function of our fallen nature: that part of us that wants to be God. As would-be gods, we want to be in control, we want things to go our way. When things don't go our way, when other people don't follow our lead and go along with our program, we get angry. This leads us to judge others. Judging others is one way of playing God.

You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." (St. Matthew 5:43-48).

"I want you to know this, that Jesus Christ our Lord Himself the True Mind of the Father. By Him, all the fullness of every rational nature is made in the image of His Image is the head of all creation, and of His body the Church (Colossians 1:15-18). Therefore we are all members one of another, and the body of Christ and the head cannot say to the feet, I have no need of you; and if one; member suffers, the whole body is moved and suffers with it (Ephesians 4:25). But if a member is estranged from the body, and has no communication with the head, but is delighted by the passions of his own body, this means that its wound is incurable, and it has forgotten its beginning and its end.

The hierarchy was established in the Church by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, that it has been with Church from its very beginning, and that in the Apostolic period it received organization in three degrees (bishop-priest-deacon).

The inward life of the Church is mystical (or sacramental). The word "mysteries" (Greek mysteria) is the term used in the Orthodox East; "sacraments" (Latin sacramenta) is the term used in the Latin West (Roman Catholic). Since the latter term was used in the West before the schism of the Roman Church, there is nothing wrong with its usage by Orthodox Christians of the West, especially since few people around them are familiar with the word "mysteries"; but Orthodox Christians often prefer to use the Greek term.

Each has his personal feast day in the month of January; St. Basil on the 1st, St. Gregory on the 25th, and St. John Chrysostom on the 27th. The common feast we celebrate on the 30th was instituted in the 11th century, in the time of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus. At one time there was a quarrel among the people about who was the greatest of the three.