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Novice
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Joined 2006-09-05
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Dear Friends,
Erin and I have just returned from a 4-day backpacking trek in central Colorado, near Breckenridge. Our discussions were inspired by a book called “The Teaching of the Holy Fathers on the Passions.” Once or twice each day of our trip, (during meals or at night around the campfire) we paused to read and to meditate on the words of this little gem. If you’re not familiar with the way the Fathers use the word, “Passion” refers to a sin that has captured the mind and become an internal habit. The Fathers maintain that the Life in Christ is a struggle against the passions, and a fight to acquire purity of heart --to the end that we become temples of the Holy Spirit. The book introduces the Fathers’ concept of struggle, and gives their “prescription” for the passions of gluttony, anger, vainglory and lust (of course, their are many more passions, but it’s just a little book!). The last chapter is on dispassion --our goal, the state of theosis.
This book, along with its companion volume, “The Teaching of the Holy Fathers on the Body” are troves of distilled patristic wisdom. Both are pocket-sized - I might say “road-trip-sized” - and are worth checking out! Look for them on the website soon. They’re $4.50.
from the third floor of EDB,
Joshua
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