tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836001125267727609.post1794740143065878379..comments2023-09-27T05:12:31.333-04:00Comments on Ancient Christian Witness: Alice Linsley: From Episcopalian Priest to Her First Orthodox PaschaJnormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06749159886390240183noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836001125267727609.post-15312728264112582452009-07-05T01:56:46.271-04:002009-07-05T01:56:46.271-04:00Hello,
I ask for your prayers...
Gleanings from Or...Hello,<br />I ask for your prayers...<br />Gleanings from Orthodox authors and Holy Fathers...This is the spiritual passion [i.e., the Love of God] with which the apostles and the martyrs were inebriated. With it the first travelled the world over,<br /> toiling and being reviled,<br /> while the second,<br /> although their members were severed,<br /> and although they shed their blood like water and suffered the most dreadful torments,<br /> yet they did not grow faint-hearted but endured courageously, and bring truly wise,<br /> were thought fools.<br /> Still others wandered in mountains and caves and dens of the earth,<br /> and amid disorder they were most well-ordered.<br />'' The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian<br />Pray for me a sinner,<br />ICXC NIKA<br />eleniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com