Author: Jerome Kodell
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814632383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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One would expect an abbot to have words of wisdom for monks living in a monastery. But could his musings be relevant for those living in a complicated and often harried world? Yes, as readers will discover in this insightful collection. From these essays, readers will think in new ways about prayer, Christian life, and faith. Along the way, they will find in Jerome Kodell an abbot worthy of trust.
Author: Merle Wigeson
Publisher: Boujardo Books
ISBN: 0992453135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Toad and his friends have been captured by Viking raiders after their home was sacked and burned. They have forgotten their heritage, and are at the mercy of the most brutal of their captors. But escape is at hand in the form of Cyanotic the mysterious Druid, who engineers their escape and provides them with the many gifts whose strange powers will aid them in their quest. To reach the famed school of magic in the far reaches of the world they need to recover their memories and royal attributes. But the most shocking betrayal of all awaits them just as success is within their grasp. Beware the Barbed Butterflies!
Author: Archim. Lazar (Abashidze)
Publisher: Vladimir Djambov
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html … The train is our life, lived in artificial conditions, devoid of any living breath and true joy, fenced off by various kinds of soft and hard partitions and double frames from the world of God. We look at this world through glass, admire its beauty, but we preferred it to cramped plastic cabins, foam rubber beds, suitcases, bales, shaking to the silly grumbling of the radio ... /// And so, just as for the completeness of reality, a flat picture lacked spatial depth and this space itself would lack the passage of time, so for all this world around us, with all its beauty and wealth, with all our many deeds, searches in it requires one more dimension, one direction, movement, one more essential depth - this is the entry into the spiritual world, the approach to God, the union with Him by grace. Without this deepening, or rather, elevation in the degrees of spirituality, our life remains the same flat bright picture without space for life - one dream. Without this ascent into another world, our being is just a frozen, dead space devoid of life, like a motionless sculpture - again, one illusion, again just a landscape running through the glass, at which we gaze with boredom from the cramped compartment of a passenger carriage. /// A Christian does not quickly and easily achieve true love for God. Here is what Saint Bishop Ignatius says about this: /// “Quite often we begin to serve God by means of such a method that is contrary to the ordinance of God, forbidden by God, which brings harm to our souls, not good. So, some, having read in the Holy Scriptures that love is the highest of virtues, that it is God, they begin and intensify immediately to develop in their hearts the feeling of love, by them to dissolve their prayers, divine contemplation, all their actions. God turns away from this unclean sacrifice. It requires love from a person, but true, spiritual, holy love, not dreamy, carnal, defiled by pride and voluptuousness. It is impossible to love God otherwise than with a heart purified and sanctified by Divine grace. Love for God is a gift from God: it is poured into the souls of God's true servants by the action of the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, that love, which belongs to our natural properties, is in sinful damage that encompasses the entire human race, the entire being of every person, all the properties of every person ... /// A Prayer [to] St. Bishop Ignatius: /// O Lord! /// Grant us to see our sins, so that our mind, drawn fully to the attention of our own faults, ceases to see the faults of our neighbors - and would thus see all our neighbors as good. /// Grant us to behold, in the light of Thy Grace, the various ailments living in us, which destroy the spiritual movements in the heart, and introduce into it blood and carnal movements, hostile to the Kingdom of God. Grant us the great gift of repentance, preceded and born of the great gift of the seeing of our sins. /// Protect us with these great gifts from the abysses of self-delusion, which opens in the soul from its unnoticed and incomprehensible sinfulness, and is born of the action of voluptuousness and vanity the soul does not notice and does not understand. /// Preserve us with these great gifts on our way to You, and grant us to reach You, who calls on sinners who are aware of being such and rejects those who recognize themselves as righteous; /// may we forever praise Thee in eternal bliss, the One True God, the Redeemer of the captives, the Savior of those perished. Amen.
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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"The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories" by Leonid Andreyev is a collection of tales from the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. This volume of stories contains the classics: The Crushed Flower, A Story Which Will Never Be Finished, On the Day of the Crucifixion, The Serpent's Story, Love, Faith, and Hope, The Ocean, Judas Iscariot and Others, and "The Man Who Found the Truth."
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: James M. McCracken
Publisher: James McCracken
ISBN: 1452481539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Haunted by nightmares Charlie begins to see shadows lurking all around him. Are they real or just his imagination? Suddenly, one by one, the students are attacked. As the finger begins to point at Charlie, he must act fast to prove his innocence. Together with his trusted friends Howard, Gus and Rick, they set out to find "The Shadows In The Dark." "Charlie MacCready Shadows In The Dark" is the second book in the Charlie MacCready series.
Author: Conn Iggulden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681778084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field—on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome—from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan’s vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . . From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott’s Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings—the man who can change the fate of England.
Author: Philip Lawrence
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557682711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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These are selections from the Notebook of Abbot Philip Lawence that describes the life of monks in a monastery in New Mexico. Abbot Lawrence reveals the day to day existence and principles of what it takes to live a life of prayer, obedience, and perseverance in a Benedictine Abbey.
Author: Patrick John Ryan (abp. of Philadelphia.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages, Imaginary
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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