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The Temple of the Living God
The Heart That Becomes Christ’s Dwelling Place “We are the temple of God.” — 1 Corinthians 3:16 The Christian life is not first the struggle to become better people, but the gradual unveiling of what we have already become through Christ. We have been fashioned to be the dwelling place of the living God. Every act of repentance, every hidden prayer, every battle against the passions, every tear shed in sincerity serves this one purpose: that the heart might become a temple in
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jul 13 min read
The Cry of the Inward Child
St. Isaac, Tears, and the Birth of the Soul into the Air of Grace “When you attain to the region of tears, then know that your mind has left the prison of this world and has begun to breathe that other air, new and wonderful.” — St. Isaac the Syrian Synopsis of Tonight's Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian Homily 14 There are passages in the Fathers that do not merely instruct us. They unsettle us because they seem to speak from a place beyond ordinary lan
Father Charbel Abernethy
May 204 min read
The Tears the World Cannot Understand
When the heart begins to break open before God “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.” Psalm 51:17 We rarely speak of tears the way the Fathers do. We speak of tears as emotion. As grief. As psychological release. As pain overflowing. As tenderness. As loss. As love. And all of this may be true. But St. Isaac the Syrian speaks of something far more frightening and far more holy. He speaks of tears as the beginning of the inw
Father Charbel Abernethy
May 204 min read
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