Sunday, December 12, 2010

". . . those continual prayers that are performed with the body, out of which prayer in the heart is born. . . ."

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St. Isaac the Syrian, "Concerning aspects of the way of stillness," =chap. 1 of the long-lost Second Part of the Writings, trans. ...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Just guarding the walls for the sake of Christ

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". . . one of the Fathers bids that, as a result of just being seated unoccupied in one's cell, sitting there without any work and ...

so that they might be aware of him

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"he it is who, while dwelling in his own being when there was none to urge him — in that nothing existed — of his own accord and in his...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Joyce on the final form of the text

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— But this prying into the family life of a great man, Russell began impatiently. Art thou there, truepenny? — Interesting only to the p...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

"All at once, and with no two ways about it, I was being told to put my life in order."

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". . . Yet more agreeable than bringing modern ideas and scholarship to the Poles was the sight of the old tried ways of Europe, thrivi...

"the full power of worship will only be felt if its sacramental character is realized in undiminished form"

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"the full power of [the Christian (73)] worship [that is irreversibly 'the deepest of the springs by which leisure is fed and cont...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

"those rootless celebrations, carefully and unspontaneously prepared beforehand, and as artificial as a maypole"

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"a feast 'without gods', and unrelated to worship, is quite simply unknown.  It is true that ever since the French Revolution a...