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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Let me now make a beginning of good

Venerable Arsenius the Great
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

¶3. It happened that when Abba Arsenius was sitting in his cell that he was harassed by demons. His servants, on their return, stood outside his cell and heard him praying to God in these words, 'O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in your sight, but according to your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.'

Monday, July 25, 2011

Interior activity into accord with God

Venerable Arsenius the Great
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

¶9. A brother questioned Abba Arsenius to hear a word of him and the old man said to him, 'Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.'

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Venerable John Climacus ~ The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Step 30 ~ On Faith, Hope and Love

Ascend, brothers, ascend eagerly, and be resolved in your hearts to ascend and hear him who says: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of our God, who makes our feet like hind's feet, and sets us upon high places, that we might be victors with His song.

Run, I beseech you, with him who said: Let us hasten until we attain to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of God, unto a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, who, when He was baptized in the thirtieth year of His visible age, fulfilled the thirtieth step in the spiritual ladder; since God is indeed love, to whom be praise, dominion, power, in whom is and was and will be the cause of all goodness throughout endless ages. Amen.

Venerable Isaac of Syria

Enter eagerly into the treasure house that lies within you, and so you will see the treasure-house of heaven: for the two are the same, there is but one entry to them both. The ladder that leads to the Kingdom is hidden within you, and is found in your own soul. Dive into yourself, and in your soul you will discover the rungs by which to ascend.

Precious and Life-Creating Cross ~ Octoechos ~ Tone 6
Wednesday/Friday Matins Aposticha Sticheron

Being protected by Thy Cross,
We struggle against the Enemy,
Not fearing his deceit or cunning;
For the Proud One was destroyed
And trampled down
By the power of Christ crucified on the Tree.

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Let me now make a beginning of good

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Interior activity into accord with God

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