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Category: Book of Crumbs

Brief thoughts for spiritual reflection and edification

Book of Crumbs/Reflection

On Prayer…

Posted on 2012/05/08 by Redpriest

The key to a Christian conception of studies is the realization that prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul ...

Book of Crumbs/Reflection

On Understanding Another Person…

Posted on 2012/05/07 by Redpriest

One day Abba Arsenius consulted an old Egyptian monk about his own thoughts. Someone noticed this and said to him, “Abba Arsenius, how is it that you with...

Book of Crumbs/Reflection

On Warfare…

Posted on 2012/05/04 by Redpriest

To pray unceasingly is to engage in unceasing warfare.

Book of Crumbs/Reflection/Saints

On the Virgin…

Posted on 2012/05/04 by Redpriest

O Virgin Pure by St. Nectarios Plagal First Tone (Tone 5) Refrain: Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded! O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos O Virgin Mother, Queen...

Book of Crumbs/Reflection

On the Galilee Moment…

Posted on 2012/05/03 by Redpriest

Each one of us has a “Galilee Moment” – that moment when we are called by the Christ to follow Him [Mk 1.17] or that moment of re-assurance th...

Book of Crumbs/Reflection

For he has become a Galilean…

Posted on 2012/05/01 by Redpriest

For he (Athanasius) was the son of an aristocratic woman, a worshiper of idols, who was very rich; and he was an orphan on the father’s side. So when he g...

Book of Crumbs

On Man and Science…

Posted on 2012/04/26 by Redpriest

If God is absent, Man becomes an object before science. Man then becomes a number, an experiment, a test wherein he may be discarded on a whim. Man is, then, a ...

Book of Crumbs

On Love…

Posted on 2012/04/26 by Redpriest

“Human love anticipates divine love, while divine love perfects human love.”

Book of Crumbs

On the Name of God…

Posted on 2012/04/24 by Redpriest

Why is the Name of God important? Without a Name, how can we call on Him; how can we have a relationship with Him; how can we experience Him? Names give identit...

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On Spiritual Blindness…

Posted on 2012/04/23 by Redpriest

An elder said, “Strife delivers a man to anger, anger to blindness, and blindness makes him work all manner of evil.”

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