"Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against anyone. Be not angry if you are wronged. Forgive. Be reconciled with everyone you know. If you are penitent, you love. And if you love, you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others. - " Fyodor Dostoyevsky"
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Currently Reading: October 2006
Title: Finding God's Will For You (Excerpt of book 8 and 9 of Treatise on the Love of God)
Author: Saint Francis de Sales
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release: 1998, (Original Release: 17th Century, AD)
Author: Saint Francis de Sales
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release: 1998, (Original Release: 17th Century, AD)
Friday, September 15, 2006
Currently Reading: September 2006
Title: The Confessions
Author: Saint Augustine. Translated by Henry Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release: 1991, (Original Relase 5th Century, AD)
Author: Saint Augustine. Translated by Henry Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release: 1991, (Original Relase 5th Century, AD)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Seeds - August/September 2006
“Oh Lord, I beseech you that the fiery, honey-sweet force of your love might absorb my spirit, drawing it away from everything that lies beneath the sky, so that I might die of love for your love, who for love of my love deigned to die.”
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Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226). Mendicant Preacher. Patron saint of animals and the environment. Founder of the Franciscan Order (Friars Minor).
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Currently Reading: August 2006
Title: Francis & Clare of Assisi: Selected Writings
Author: Saint Francis & Saint Clare of Assisi. Foreword by Michael Morris
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release: 2006
Author: Saint Francis & Saint Clare of Assisi. Foreword by Michael Morris
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release: 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Currently Reading: July 2006
Title: St. Benedicts's Rule For Monasteries
Author: Saint Benedict of Nursia
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release: 1948, (Original Release: 6th Century, AD)
Author: Saint Benedict of Nursia
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release: 1948, (Original Release: 6th Century, AD)
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Seeds - June/July 2006
You holy flame, sweet comfort, now help us, joyful and content to bide forever in thy service, that sadness may not cast us out. O Lord, through your might prepare us, and make strong the weakness of our flesh, that we here may gallantly strive through death and life to reach thy presence. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Martin Luther (1483-1546). Monk, Reformer, Theologian.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Seeds - May 2006
You have made my soul for Your peace and Your silence, but it is lacerated by the noise of my activity and my desires. My mind is crucified all day by its own hunger for experience, for ideas, for satisfaction. And I do not possess my house in silence. . . I am – noisy, full of the racket of my imperfections and passions, and the wide open wounds left by my sins. Full of my own emptiness. Yet, ruined as my house is, You live there!
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Writer, Trappist Monk.
His books can be obtained here. Some of his writings include The Seven Storey Mountain, The Sign of Jonas, Contemplative Prayer.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Seeds - April 2006
Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. … If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Prolific Russian author who wrote on religion, philosophy, and psychology.
To obtain free online e-texts of his works: http://dostoyevsky.thefreelibrary.com/
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Seeds - March 2006
Sacrifice, that is to say, is not primarily a matter of giving up but of giving. The main emphasis falls not upon what we deny to ourselves, but upon what we offer to God and to our neighbours ...
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Bishop Kallistos Ware (b 1934-). Theologian, Lecturer, & Author of numerous books pertaining to the Orthodox Christian Faith.
Kallistos Ware on How to read the Bible: http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/11/1/4.aspx
Kallistos Ware on Faith & Worship: http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/11/1/6.aspx
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Currently Reading: February 2006
Title: A History Of The Church In England
Author: J. R. H. Moorman
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Release: 1980, 3rd edition, (Original Release: 1963)
Author: J. R. H. Moorman
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Release: 1980, 3rd edition, (Original Release: 1963)
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