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Oikonomía, a better way to pastor

7 August 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto 2 Comments

There was God’s Will to consider, and God was understood often to give people not what they wanted but what they needed. He dealt with people not according to fixed principles of justice but in ways that would best bring about each soul’s salvation. The Byzantine term for this was oikonomía, and it is still […]

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