Pastor’s Blog-Feb. 2020
The Abbas and Ammas of the ancient Egyptian desert were clear in their teachings that no one way of prayer was right for everyone....
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Somewhere around the end of the fifth century or the beginning of the sixth, someone known as Dionysius wrote about an even more...
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If God loves each one of us very much, and if God longs to help us overcome the passions that blind us and the hurdles that cause us...
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This month, as we head into a new church year, we are beginning to look more deeply at the most important of all the virtues: that of...
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In past months, we have been examining what the ancient desert fathers and mothers called the passions; obsessive habits, thoughts,...
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Roberta Bondi writes that the fourth-century monastic teacher, Evagrius Ponticus, considered anger “’the most fierce...
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One of the passions – habits that blind us and prevent love – of which the early monastics spoke, is pride. Roberta Bondi...
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