THE BRIDE OF CHRIST IS THE SOUL OF A MAN

If the nuns are the bride of Christ, then who are the monks?

- The bride of Christ is the soul of man. The soul is feminine, both in the  monk and nun. It is no accident that they say that monks and nuns are of the middle kind, not women and not men, they are higher than the definition of masculine and feminine, they have risen above this. And the bride of Christ is not a nun, when in this definition they understand how the bride of Christ, here in the Western Church there was such a relationship of a nun not as a soul, but as physiology, and in the Catholic Church we observe a lot of spiritual perversions when a nun reaches such damage that she begins a human relationship with Christ, and even comes to blasphemy. In the Catholic Church, especially in its late period, there are a lot of such examples when the essence itself was incorrectly defined and the development went wrong. The nun defines herself as a woman in the earthly understanding of this word and begins a relationship with Christ in her female understanding, in the earthly, and this leads to bad results, to blasphemy, to shame. I remind you once again: in the late period of the Catholic Church there are such moments. Not a nun, as a woman, the bride of Christ, her soul, which has a female gender, she is the bride of Christ. But the soul of both the monk and the nun is the bride of Christ. And my soul is the bride of Christ, and mother Xenia's soul is the bride of Christ. This is a very important point, why did I dwell on it? So that there would be no improper development of our relationship with Christ.

From the book "Light" Archpriest Sergii Baranov