Four Attributes of a Christian Family

by Metropolitan Stephanos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

The Christian family aims to create Saints, who will in turn work in schools, construction, agriculture, shipping and so forth, transforming all of society as much as they can. The fundamental characteristics of the Church are unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity, just as we recite at the end of the Creed, the Symbol of Faith: “In one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.”