Asceticism

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• The Feast of St. John of the Cross – Mystic of the Dark Night

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  Today, December 14, we commemorate St. John of the Cross, a new addition to the Episcopal liturgical calendar. He is probably best known for the term “the dark night of the soul,” which is also the poem in which he wrote about “the soul’s happiness in having passed through the dark night of faith, in ...
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• Brother Lawrence – Chapel of the Heart

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  It is not necessary to be always in church to be with God, we can make a private chapel of our heart where we can retire from time to time to commune with Him, peacefully, humbly, lovingly; everyone is capable of these intimate conversations with God, some more, others less; He knows what we can do. Let us begin – ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Seven Rules of a Monk

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  These are the seven rules of a monk: In the first place, as scripture says, “Love God with all your soul and all your mind.” Then, love your fellow human beings as you love yourself. Fast from all evil. Never pass judgment on anyone, for any cause. Never do evil to anyone. Discipline yourself and purge ...
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• Warrin’ Piece

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  The Current Cinema Love Hurts by David Denby Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as the Tolstoys in Michael Hoffman’s movie. In “The Last Station,” Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man—Leo Tolstoy in his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sermon For Advent 2C

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  The collect and readings for yesterday, the Second Sunday of Advent may be found here . The appointed gospel was Luke 3:1-6. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some Thoughts On Repentance

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  “John the Baptist went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Luke 3:3) Repentance … is as much or more about our heart as it is about our actions. is returning our gaze to God. is changing the direction of our life in order ...
  3 weeks ago

• We need beauty - a note on Byzantium

  
  Ellopos Blog — Authority: 91
  Read at Aeneas Quest a post that draws a distinction between modern colonial imperialism and the practice of ancient Greeks to found colonies in various places around (what today is) Greece. Main differences are that 1) Greeks did not oppress the peoples where they founded new cities, 2) they did not make colonies for ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Season of Advent – Holy Waiting and Watching

  
  Interrupting the Silence — Authority: 123
  Picture courtesy of Liturgy.co.nz A new liturgical year begins this coming Sunday, November 29, 2009, with the First Sunday of Advent. The Season of Advent consists of the four Sundays before Christmas. The liturgical color for Advent is purple or sometimes blue. We will begin a new liturgical cycle of seasons, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wisdom from the Desert and the Fathers

  
  Byzantine Ramblings — Authority: 417
  He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according to his own capacity as recipient.St. Maximos the Confessor…alas for the soul that is unaware of its wounds and that in its endless sinfulness and obduracy does not think it has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thoughts on Democracy, Materialism, Marketing, Natural Law, and Hegemony

  
  Studying the Classics — Authority: 130
  I have a bunch of thoughts about the above that are flying around Quidditch-style in my head. I know they all belong in the same game, but I haven’t made sense of it yet. Please bear with me. I wrote recently about marketing analyses leading to better practices, such as greening up parking lots. Marketing and thus ...
  4 weeks ago

• St. Teresa of Avila on "Thy Will Be Done"

  
  The Lewis Crusade — Authority: 106
  Chapter 32 of The Way of Perfection is a profound treatise on suffering, focusing on the idea that, when we pray "Thy will be done," we are, like Jesus and Mary, assenting to Gods will, not just in the good stuff but in the bad stuff, and the suffering we will endure. Let me put it in another way. Consider, ...
  5 weeks ago

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