Posted in orthoparadoxy, saints and days on 19 October 2008 - 21 תשרי 5769
HAT KIND of people are we? When God gives, we wish to receive, but when he begs, we refuse to give. Remember, it was Christ who said: I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. When the poor are starving, Christ too hungers. Do not neglect to improve the unhappy conditions of the [...]
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Posted in AnarXPistos, orthoparadoxy, politics, saints and days on 17 October 2008 - 19 תשרי 5769
HE RICH usually imagine that, if they do not physically rob the poor, they are committing no sin. But the sin of the rich consists in not sharing their wealth with the poor. In fact, the rich person who keeps all his wealth for himself is committing a form of robbery. The reason is that [...]
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Posted in lit101 on 1 October 2008 - 3 תשרי 5769
ATHER Victor (Memory Eternal!) shared this quote with us via the Holy Trinity Newsletter. I just found it in my blogger account (from back when I used blogger).
This is eternally precious to us, because we too live ordinary lives, and the fact that the Lord lived such a life, sanctifies everything: from the difficulty, [...]
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Posted in book club on 15 September 2008 - 16 אלול 5768
O DAY IS The beginning of the Autumn Book Club’s reading of Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism.
Blogging with us, we have:
Lee
Sally
Fr Gregory
Fr Ernesto
Fr Peter
Zara
Sare
The full reading schedule is posted for any and all who want to read along. Please be sure and whip around to everyone’s blog and participate as you are able. [...]
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Posted in other geekery, teh internets on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
HE MOST Formative step in my spiritual journey to-date was reading a book in a class with Donald Schell at St Gregory’s Church in San Francisco (1999/2000). The book was Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from Patristic Era with Commentary. I have quoted from it many times in these pages - [...]
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Posted in contemplation on 16 August 2008 - 16 אב 5768
AUL May be the first one to wrestle publicly with the question of difference between Jews (and Gentiles) who accept Jesus as Messiah and specifically Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah. He is doing so in to-day’s RCL readings (for Proper 15, Year A, RCL):
Just as you were once disobedient to God but [...]
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