#chalcedonian

Here you must take your stand and say that wherever Christ is according to his divinity, he is there as a natural, divine person and he is also naturally and personally there, as his conception in his mother's womb proves conclusively. For if he was the Son of God, he had to be in his mother's womb naturally and personally and become human. But if he is present naturally and personally wherever he is, then he must be human there, too, since he is not two separate persons but a single person. Wherever this person is, it is the single, indivisible person, and if you can say, 'Here is God,' then you must also say, 'Christ the human being is present too.'

A Doctrinal Statement on Jesus: His Essence and Divinity

In fact, there’s the story of St. Herman of Alaska that some Russian sailors were in Kodiak or Spruce Island where he lived, and he was not a priest, but he had a chapel. He was praying all the time, and he invited the sailors to come and pray with him, to go into the chapel and pray with him. One of the sailors said, “Oh, Abba, monk, father, we can’t go. We’re sinners.” And St. Herman said to the sailor, “That’s good. That’s a qualification. You can’t come to church unless you’re a sinner. Unless you’re a sinner, you can’t come. The church is not for saints, for righteous people. There aren’t any, except those who are saved and holy and righteous because of faith, because of grace. And any person who is holy and righteous because of faith and grace would never consider himself a saint, but would confess himself as a sinner.” So St. Herman told this sailor, “Being a sinner is what qualifies you to be a member of the Church. You can’t be a member of the Church if you’re not a sinner.”