Posted on 03/31/2006 7:26:50 PM PST by sionnsar
S, you do a great service to all of us, but more especially to your Anglican brethren, by posting +Ryle's works. This hierarch continues to amaze me. He writes almost as a modern Church Father, a Father to the Anglo Saxon world. He is so sublimely Orthodox in his theology. Imagine what it must have been like to sit in church and hear this man preach!
I am pinging the Orthodox list. To my fellow Orthodox, I encourage you to read the sermons and writings of this 19th century Anglican bishop. Doesn't he remind you of the Cappadocian Fathers and even later of the likes of +Symeon the New Theologian?
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Quite an experience, I expect.
He is good.
I like this:
--We must be holy on earth before we die, if we desire to go to heaven after death. If we hope to dwell with God for ever in the life to come, we must endeavour to be like Him in the life that now is. We must not only admire holiness, and wish for holiness: we must be holy.--
This is the truth the modern world tries to hide. I have read multiple articles about how non-religiously practicing people say they believe and admire those who do practice, but won't make real room in their lives for it. That is a sadness.
But worse is the driving of some to change Jesus' standard of holiness into something weak, that affirms us in our sins, and pats us on the head without asking us to grow.
Lord, be with us and lead us in your ways, and not ours. Amen.
How's the new one doing? Perhaps more importantly, how are you doing? :)
Thanks for asking!
Vlad is doing very well - 2 months old, 14 lbs. I'm tired, but otherwise okay. Struggling with quite of bit of extra weight, but this week I feel like I've recovered my "mental game," as golfers say :-).
And I feel like I've made some spiritual progress this Lent.
"And I feel like I've made some spiritual progress this Lent."
All around success, then! I know your a Latin Rite Catholic, but if you get the chance, attend an Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos on some Friday during Great Lent at your local Orthodox Church. The motherhood imagery used in praise of the BVM, how she fed the infant Christ and is a source of spiritual nourishment for all of us is quite wonderful.
God bless you and little Vlad (and the rest of the chicks and the rooster too!).
Great suggestion! We have Greek Orthodox here, I know; my husband and son ran a 5K during the Greek Festival, although I was poorly that weekend and we couldn't go pig out on Greek food :-).
He's off work next Friday, so I'll try to get a couple of kids over to the Greek church.
Ping!
"He's off work next Friday, so I'll try to get a couple of kids over to the Greek church."
Check their schedule; its likely online. Akathists are usually chanted in the evening.
Thanks!
I found a Greek Orthodox church that's reasonably accessible - my husband wouldn't want me "uptown" with the baby at night :-). The website says the congregations stands for an hour for the Akathist. Do you think they'd make an exception for someone with a 15 lb. nursing baby?
"Do you think they'd make an exception for someone with a 15 lb. nursing baby?"
Yes! But you might want to make sure they have pews. Even if they don't, there are always chairlike "stalls" along the sides where you can sit after a fashion. :)
I'll put a folding chair in the back of the van, just in case! I've known mothers who could nurse standing up, but I've never been one of them.
Thanks to you I have started reading some of his treatises. This excerpt surely suits the times:
"To be at peace with the world, the flesh and the devil, is to be at enmity with God and in the broad way that leads to destruction. We have no choice or option. We must either fight or be lost."
Amen! I hope the so called "Christians" who signed the
peace at any price resolutions read this.
Got approval from Der Prinz for our excursion to the Greeks - should be fun! He thought we might all go, but I don't think they're ready for a full-scale invasion of Redneck Evangelical Catholics :-).
Fantastic find sionnsar! Printed, Bumped and Bookmarked
" He thought we might all go, but I don't think they're ready for a full-scale invasion of Redneck Evangelical Catholics :-)."
I doubt you'd surprise them, especially where you are. Well, we have our own contingent of Redneck Evangelicals, one family of former Protestants with 9 kids and one Catholic with 7 (in the summer we have another former Protestant family with 10 kids and I long since lost count of their grandkids). You might be surprised what you'll find there! It tends to be the "evangelical" types who go to the weeknight Great Lent devotions! :)
LOL! Anyway, I'm looking forward to a religious event without the whole crowd of kids. I'll take Anoreth, and Vlad, and maybe one of the middle boys.
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