I think that if a Christian says to himself that he is a modern Christian, he has already lost the battle. He must realize that he is a CHRISTIAN and that he is fighting the same battle that has been ongoing for 2000 years – the struggle for knowledge of God, for that which remains forever, for that which shapes man and his relationship to the world, God and other people. If he realizes this – then he is on the right path to acquiring what he has been striving for.

Christ is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and unto the ages of ages, as Apostle Paul said.

I think that in modern life this is how the lie that the devil presents to us manifests itself: that now there is a special situation for which there are no recipes, no rules, that now is the time of computers and modern technologies and the ways of salvation are different.

I believe that together with this lie, which he planted in us, he imposes a parallel religion, the religion of this world.

The fact that there are modern technologies, that we dress differently, and that social relations have changed, does not separate us from the Gospel. The Gospel remains the same, for it is timeless and was not written for the times when the Lord walked the earth, but for all times.

Archimandrite Luka (Anic) – for fifteen years has been the abbot of one of the largest monasteries in Serbia and Montenegro, the Cetinje Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary