[Salvation]

For your thoughtful and prayerful meditation and response.

[Salvation]

Imitation of Christ Devotional Ping!

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Also, many Protestants have asked me to put them on this ping list. I have gladly done so, and will add your name also if you FReepmail me. I reassure you that will not get all the Catholic pings.

[blue-duncan]

Let’s see; no “idle talk” and no “inane silliness”. I might as well just give it all up and become an engineer.

[Kolokotronis]

“Sorrow works in two ways: it is like water because it quenches all the fire of passion with tears and washes the soul clean of stains, and it is like a fire which gives life by the presence of the Holy Spirit. It kindles, blazes up, and warms the heart, and inflames it with love and desire for God.”

+Symeon the New Theologian

[Thudd]

I like this article a great deal. There aren't that many Christians these days, at least in the comfortable west, that are fully willing to chase after God to the point of being undone in the heart. Plenty of folks seem excited about sharing the throne with the Lord, but not as many want to examine what it takes to get there. As the song goes, "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

The apostle Paul was one of the few who actively sought after "the fellowship of his sufferings", not as a means of attaining a false righteousness, but so he could also experience the "power" of the ressurrection of the Lord. I want that too, as well as all the fellowship with him that I can get.

I'm not a Catholic, but I admire the tradition within the Catholic Church that is willing to look deeply into this particular aspect of our walk with and imitation of Christ.