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Two Kingdoms, One Heart
Why St. Isaac Refuses All Half Measures in the Spiritual Life Synopsis of Tonight’s Group on The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian - Homily 6: 14-18 St. Isaac the Syrian does not allow us the comfortable fiction that we can want less than everything and still be safe. His words strip away a thousand modern compromises. To say I only wish to escape Gehenna but not to enter the Kingdom is for him a form of madness. There are not three places. There are two. To fall sho
Father Charbel Abernethy
Jan 213 min read
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When God Wounds the Heart, Hell Comes Sniffing
The hand of God is on me, heavy, unyielding. Not cruel, but crushing in its love. He has opened something in me I cannot close. A wound that bleeds longing. A wound that makes every breath ache for Him. I feel my poverty like exposed nerve, raw, throbbing, alive. And in this cracked-open place, when I am soft and trembling before Him, the demons come like dogs to blood. They know where He touched me. They smell grace like a wound. They circle, patient, hungry. I do not fear t
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 26, 20252 min read
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