“In order to learn praying, pray more often and with more zeal and you
will learn it: you would not need anything else. If you work hard and
patiently, you will acquire the skill of unceasing prayer with time.
Make it your goal — to seek and do seek. The Lord is close to you. Keep
God always in your mind and always try to see the Lord before you and to
venerate Him.”
Saint Theophan the Recluse
These three are inseparable: truth, goodness, and beauty. For God is Truth (John 14:6), God is Good (Psalm 99:5), and God is Beauty (Psalm 89:17) – and God is One. When the human nous contemplates the most-perfect beauty it also beholds the greatest good and the highest truth. The soul thus becomes capable of fitting into itself all the boundlessness of divinity. For this reason, the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) in his novel, The Idiot, writes: “Beauty will save the world.”
Sunday, December 20, 2020
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Beauty in Candles
As the candle both melts and illumines at the same time, so we in the temple – and especially we outside it – must also “melt,” both sacrifi...

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“ , for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).
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