The ultimate promise of Christianity is undoubtedly access to God. In contemporary times we call this participation in the divine life. Saint Gregory Palamas, the “Light of Orthodoxy,” is honored on the second Sunday of Great Lent. Saint Gregory lived from 1296 to 1359 AD as Archbishop of Thessalonica. Gregory claimed that the prophets actually had greater knowledge of God, because they had actually seen or heard God himself. Palamas is recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Byzantine Catholic Churches that are in communion with Rome revere him in the liturgy, and Pope John Paul II has been cited several times as a great theological writer as well as a saint. Palamas' works offer us an in-depth mystical theology of God and his grace, inspiring us to a deeper personal relationship and union with God. Therefore, “theology in the highest sense is not the knowledge of God but the possession of God.” Born in 1296, probably in Constantinople, Saint Gregory was the descendant of a noble Anatolian family. Gregory and several other members of his family became monks after the death of his father. Saint Gregory intended to defend the traditional theory of divine participation against its misinterpretation by Byzantine humanists. Gregory's main theological thoughts concerned the distinction between essence and energy in God. This thought was motivated by the possibility of communion with God himself. For Saint Gregory, the uncreated God and the created world are resolved by distinct epistemological paths. In any reflection on the works of St. Gregory, in order to fully understand them, we may need to improve our conception of God. Palamas distinguished three classes of people seeking a personal relationship...... middle of paper ......usion and undertook the same action. In conclusion, Saint Gregory Palamas is and should be a revered saint of Christian Catholicism. Church. Its teachings are consistent with Catholic and Orthodox dogmatic teachings. Also the Holy See, Pope John Paul II, has repeatedly emphasized his admiration for Eastern theology as an enrichment for the entire Church. John Paul II also concluded that one cannot deny the goodness of the intention that inspired his (Palamas) doctrine, which was to emphasize that man is offered the concrete possibility of uniting in his heart interior to God in this profound union of grace. known as theosis, divinization. Veneration of this great man is just one small step closer to finding ways to confess our common responsibility (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic) to the Trinitarian Christian faith in the contemporary secular world..