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The Peace That Comes When We Cease to Arrange the World
Purity of heart is not having found the way forward, but having ceased to need any way except the will of God. “Those who love your law shall enjoy abundant peace; for them it is no stumbling block.” — Saint Leo the Great There is a peace that comes because circumstances have settled themselves, and there is another peace that comes because the heart has ceased demanding that they be settled. We often confuse the two. We imagine that peace will arrive when the uncertainty is
Father Charbel Abernethy
Sep 77 min read
When the Outer Self Belongs to the Inner
The hidden work by which God gathers a divided life into the simplicity of Christ “Then the outer self will belong to the inner self at last, a peaceful and secure possession.” — St. Leo the Great There are sorrows that scatter the heart, and there are sorrows that gather it. We ordinarily know the first kind best. Something is taken from us. A door closes. Another person wounds us. The future becomes uncertain. What we had imagined our life would become begins to disappear.
Father Charbel Abernethy
Sep 57 min read
The Life That Is Not Our Own
On Christ Living in the Whole Adam and the Birth of the Hypostatic Heart “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Galatians 2:20 ⸻ There is a way of reading these words that leaves them safely in the realm of doctrine. Christ is united to His Church. The faithful are His members. Grace is given. The sacraments sanctify. All of this is true. But it is not yet the truth that burns. For what Saint Leo proclaims is not simply a theological union. It is the end of
Father Charbel Abernethy
Apr 156 min read
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