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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
Husband, grandfather, ham radio op, and backyard naturalist.
Candidate for the Diaconate in the Diocese of Nashville, currently completing an MA in Theology. My particular interests are catechesis and the contemplative spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
Husband, grandfather, ham radio op, and backyard naturalist.
Candidate for the Diaconate in the Diocese of Nashville, currently completing an MA in Theology. My particular interests are catechesis and the contemplative spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
When you cannot see clearly and openly whether the sin is deadly, you must not pass judgment in your mind, but be concerned only about my will for that person. And if you do see it, you must respond not with judgment, but with holy compassion, for if you act this way your spirit will not be scandalized either in me or in your neighbors. For you cast contempt on your neighbors when you pay attention to their ill will toward you rather than my will for them.
— St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue
Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love.
— St. John of the Cross
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and according as I am able I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do? The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He said: why not be totally changed into fire?
— The Wisdom of the Desert, Thomas Merton, trans.
Amma Synclectica said, "There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time. It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts."
— The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Benedicta Ward, SLG trans.