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When the Religious Self Dies
The Birth of the Hypostatic Person in Christ “He who loses his life for My sake will find it.” — Gospel of Matthew 16:25 Throughout this retreat we have spoken about something unsettling but unavoidable: the dismantling of the religious self. Not the destruction of faith. Not the loss of devotion. But the collapse of the identity we build around them. A man can be deeply religious and yet still live entirely enclosed within himself. He prays. He fasts. He reads the fathers. Y
Father Charbel Abernethy
12 hours ago2 min read
When God Wakes Us from Our Dreams
Psalm 73 and the Shattering of Spiritual Illusion Like a dream one wakes from O Lord when you wake you dismiss them as phantoms. ⸻ There is a quiet violence in the way God saves us. He does not always tear our idols from our hands. Often he simply wakes us. And what we had clung to with such intensity dissolves in the light like mist. What felt necessary what felt meaningful what felt holy is suddenly revealed as something far more fragile than we knew. The psalmist speaks of
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jan 293 min read
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