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Hated for the Name
When the Name of Jesus Becomes the Place Where the Heart Abides “You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake; but he who endures to the end will be saved.” — Matthew 10:22 There is something almost frightening in the simplicity with which the Lord speaks these words. He does not tell His disciples that they will be misunderstood because they have failed to explain themselves adequately. He does not suggest that hostility will disappear if they become sufficiently winsome,
Father Charbel Abernethy
Aug 107 min read
Where Hell Is Faced and God Is Not Lost
On Suffering, Silence, and the Refusal to Despair “Keep your mind in hell, and despair not.” St. Silouan the Athonite ⸻ There are forms of suffering that do not visit a man and pass, but remain. They settle into the body, into the rhythm of the day, into the limits of what one can do and bear. Chronic illness has this character. It does not argue. It does not explain itself. It simply endures, and in enduring, it presses upon the heart with a kind of constancy that can feel i
Father Charbel Abernethy
Apr 75 min read
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