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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Overcoming The Guilt Trip (Discovering Hesychia)
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Saturday, May 26, 2012. Overcoming The Guilt Trip (Discovering Hesychia). Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. For there is no distance between us and the presence of God other then what we create for ourselves. We need to overcome our misplaced guilt and see that our God wants us to encounter him in every moment. A friend of mine, The Master Beadsman. Philokalia 1, p...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Elder Sophrony and Renewal
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Elder Sophrony and Renewal. We have all been given a unique calling as Christians. Sometimes we lose sight of this calling and at other times we may never have been properly introduced to it. For Elder Sophrony our calling as Christians means,". Through the gift of the Father's love what he Himself is by His nature-a God. Elder Sophrony would say that this clean up takes ".
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Follow the Pope on This
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Monday, May 26, 2014. Follow the Pope on This. That Christ has given to his Church. A truth that we never cease to understand better. The Holy Spirit’s promptings”. That Christ has given to his Church. 8221; Obviously, by not properly grasping “the whole truth” in the past we now have some of the divisions we do in the Church. Speaking of this bond Saint John Paul II said the following, “For centur...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Explaining the Aerial Toll-Houses
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Friday, June 13, 2014. Explaining the Aerial Toll-Houses. During our entire life we are caught up in a battle with the kingdom of darkness. We don’t always see these powers that assail us but the effects are real and devastating. Concerning this invisible battle the apostle Paul tells us, “. Of Photiki in the Philokalia teaches that if maintain our love for the Lord our soul is. Volume I, p. 295. 8221;(p...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Simply Byzantine
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Monday, October 29, 2012. Be ready to explain. What we believe. This is only possible by discovering the simplicity that makes our Byzantine tradition great. You have no other but me. You will love your God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself! What his Beatitude expresses is serious for us to consider if we want to be effective in reaching others with our faith. In addition to the statemen...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: St. Seraphim and Renewal
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. St Seraphim and Renewal. Simplicity of the original Christian knowledge. It is only by the grace of God that we can recognize those times that we go astray. When we do it becomes a time of personal renewal and a return to those "first works"- Rev.2:5. The indispensable means of reaching this end. Acquiring the Spirit of God. Prayer gives us it most of all. What the saint is sayin...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: Rediscovering the Philokalia
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Monday, February 3, 2014. Many years ago about the future of our Eastern churches Abbot Nicholas (Zachariadis) of the Holy Resurrection Monastery. One of the most wonderful aspects of Eastern Catholic life over the past twenty years or so has been the rediscovery of this ascetic tradition in the hearts and homes of many individuals and families. The Philokalia. Fr David Abernethy. Fr. David is a ...Anoth...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: John Paul II and the New Hesychasts
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. John Paul II and the New Hesychasts. In its traditional understanding Hesychasm is defined as the pursuit of stillness(hesychia) in Jesus Christ. It's also commonly known to be a tradition that has flourished in the context of Byzantine monastic communities. As well as physical. As well as mind. Since in a temple there are always two at work, both God and man. This is a vital d...
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: 99 Ways to Become a God
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Saturday, July 5, 2014. 99 Ways to Become a God. For the Son of God became man so that we might become God. As a Catholic, I think it’s time to take back our terminology from the captors and start again to boldly proclaim it. Our teaching on deification is in many ways the heart of the Gospel! It’s so important that Saint John Paul II, proclaimed. It to be ". The deepest mystery of the Christian vocation.
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: A New Byzantine Pentecost
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Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal. A voice for spiritual renewal in the Byzantine Catholic Churches. Wednesday, June 6, 2012. A New Byzantine Pentecost. Come, bow and fall down together with me and do not rise until you have received the gift of God, as I, who am unworthy, have received this gift of grace. The Holy Spirit is no respecter of persons, for He seeks not dignities, but piety of soul. Let neither the rich be puffed up nor the poor dejected, but only let each prepare. For to obey God is option...
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