Archive for March, 2016
Rohr: There is no sacred and profane…
Posted by Dallas Wolf in First Thoughts, New Nuggets on March 10, 2016
“There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments— and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence.”
Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Arch. Ireini : “…encountering Christ but in a way we can’t understand…”
Posted by Dallas Wolf in New Nuggets on March 6, 2016
Archimandrite Ireini (Steenberg) – was born in the United States in 1978 . He was head of Theology & Tutor for Graduates, University of Oxford. In 2011 he became Founder and Dean of the Sts Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies, San Francisco.
“… being general in a Christian way—[mysticism is] encountering Christ but in a way that we can’t understand or can’t articulate.” ~ Hieromonk Ireini (Steenberg) from a lecture on “Orthodoxy and Mysticism”, 2010.
Rohr: “First-hand Experience”
Posted by Dallas Wolf in Hesychasm - Jesus Prayer, New Nuggets on March 1, 2016
“. . . All knowledge of God is first-hand experience.”
~ Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, from his homily 28 Feb 2016
St. Nikolai Velimirovich: “Our religion is founded on spiritual experience…”
Posted by Dallas Wolf in Hesychasm - Jesus Prayer, New Nuggets on March 1, 2016
Saint Nikolai Velimirovich (1881-1956) – was a bishop in the Serbian Orthodox Church, an influential theological writer and a highly gifted orator.
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