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The Lie We Hide Behind
To say “I love God” while refusing love is to stand outside the very life we claim to seek. “Acquire the Spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved.” — St. Seraphim of Sarov St. John does not write here like a sentimental mystic. He writes like a desert father with a knife. “God is love.” That is not poetry meant to soothe us. It is judgment. Because if God is love, then every refusal to love is not a minor defect in personality. It is resistance to God Himself.
Father Charbel Abernethy
6 days ago4 min read


The Tree We Taste Daily
Judgment, Nakedness, and the Loss of Brotherly Love in the Light of the Desert Fathers “Busy yourself with your own faults, and not with other people’s, and the workshop of your mind will not be despoiled.” — The Evergetinos There is a fierce honesty in the fathers that modern Christians often find difficult to endure. They do not allow us the comfort of remaining spectators to the Fall. We prefer to think of Adam’s transgression as history, tragedy, doctrine, or inherited co
Father Charbel Abernethy
May 115 min read
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