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Monday 26 April 2021

Expository Notes With Practical Observations - William Burkitt, M.A.

 Expository Notes

With

Practical Observations

On The

New Testament

Of Our

Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ

By

William Burkitt, M.A.














The monks of the west - volume1 - Montalembert

ANTIQUE RELIGIOUS BOOK.

1861.

THE MONKS OF THE WEST.

FROM ST BENEDICT TO ST BERNARD.

BY

THE COUNT OF MONTALEMBERT.

CHARLES FORBES RENÉ DE MONTALEMBERT.

MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY.

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION.

VOLUME.  I.

515 PAGES.

HARDBACK.

LEATHER BOUND.

HEIGHT    22.1 CM.

WIDTH    15 CM.

DEPTH/THICKNESS    3.3 CM.

Monday 12 April 2021

THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST- JOHN FLEETWOOD 1774

 The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Containing the Genealogy of Our Glorious Redeemer Together with the Lives and Sufferings of His Holy Apostles, Evangelists, and other Primitive Martyrs etc. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D.D. Printed for J.Cooke, at No.17, Pater-Noster Row, London Dated MDCCLXXIV (1774)













Saturday 10 April 2021

 


Do not let pass any opportunity to pray for anyone, either at his request or at the request of his relatives, friends, of those who esteem him, or of his acquaintances. The Lord looks favorably upon the prayer of our love, and upon our boldness before him. Besides this, prayer for others is very beneficial to the one himself who prays for others; it purifies the heart, strengthens faith and hope in God, and enkindles our love for God and our neighbor. When praying, say thus: ‘Lord, it is possible for Thee to do this or that to this servant of Thine; do this for him, for Thy name is the Merciful Love of Men and the Almighty.
+ St. John of Kronstadt


Tuesday 6 April 2021

They Have Committed Every Sin Of The Flesh, But I Love Them

 



Saint Porphyrios: "They Have Committed Every Sin Of The Flesh, But I Love Them"
The Elder told me one day:
"Boys and girls come to me sometimes. Those poor children, and what haven't they done. They have committed every sin of the flesh, but I love them."
The Elder did not justify the actions of the youth, which he characterized as carnal sins, but at the same time he loved them as precious souls "for whom Christ died". By his love he attracted them like a magnet and gradually they were healed of their worship of the flesh.
This patristic attitude of the Elder was misunderstood by conservative puritans, who mourned, and some irresponsible progressives, who rejoiced, for the same reason: that supposedly the Elder "tolerated" carnal sins. They did not understand that sin cannot be combated against with an intolerant condemnation of the sinner, nor through guilty legalism of the fall. The Elder effectively fought sin by loving the sinner and helping them become aware of their responsibility for their fall, and the possibility in Christ of them being freed from it and guilt through repentance and forgiveness and the life in Christ. He wanted to guide them to a new life, and not trouble their soul with the past.
Source: From the book Hieromonk Elder Porphyrios: An Anthology of Advice.


Monday 29 March 2021

God is dead

 

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”


― Friedrich Nietzsche



Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!

 


The Jesus Prayer Method


 

Saint Theophan the Recluse

 


death, cremation, burial

 


Our body is sacred, sanctified and smelly with the Mystery of Anointing and must be buried, go where it came from according to the teaching of our Church. It was the residence of the Angelic Soul. Let's not forget it.
In Thessaloniki First Letter the Apostle urges chap 5,23 = ′′ And may your entire existence be preserved -- your spirit, soul and body ----, unconventional during the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you keeps His word and will do it."
Philippe. 3,21 = ′′ Let the body of our humiliation transforms into this generation, conform the body of his glory in his energy, and subdue all things."
and let's not forget that our body has been consecrated by baptism and we can't throw it in the..... trash!