Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. . . .”Why have we fasted,” they say, “and Thou dost not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and Thou does not take notice?” Behold, on the day of your [...]
Archive for December, 2006
The Fast
Posted in Quotations, tagged fasting, fathers, orthodoxy, patristics, Quotations, the fast, tradition on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Suffering
Posted in Journal, tagged suffering, the world on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Suffering is the way of life in the world. The mystery is that we must both accept it for ourselves and defend others against it.
The World is not the Standard
Posted in Journal, tagged the world on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The world is not all right. The world is not the standard. The world is not good in a mechanized way, as though good by nature; any good is alive and derivative and is light from God – His energies – He Who will fold up the world like a cloth when it is done. [...]
