What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Don’t chase anyone! If they do not answer, do not chase. If they make no effort, do not chase. Being alone is often much better than being an addition.
Author: a fool
All alone with Jesus
transfiguration of the Lord
Today is the great feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. I wish all of you to be spiritually transfigured and to begin a new life in Christ. Those who fulfill the commandments of the Lord according to their strength even here on earth pass from strength to strength. But those who are counted worthy to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven will pass already from glory to glory.
Talks with Spiritual Children: Spiritual Counsel from St. Barsanuphius of Optina
And, today, is my birthday! So happy birthday to me.
nationalism?
Nationalism has been the bane of Orthodoxy for the last ten centuries.
The Orthodox Church, 84
looks
What’s something you used to worry about but don’t anymore?
I want to say other people and their opinions. But maybe the way I look is more realist. I used to care, especially when I was much younger, but now it is just no longer part of my thought-process. I am simply past it
Anyway …
person over institution
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life?
… wherever Jesus Christ is [present], there is the Church
As a person who is de-churched (that is, I was once involved but no longer), this quote by Ignatius of Antioch sets the baseline. I want to entertain that I still have faith but will remain outside the institution for the foreseeable future. Jesus over institution.
schema cat
my house!
What are your top 10 travel destinations?
I do not travel – never! So I will share my favourite rooms of the house:
- Chapel/Oratory
- Library
- Bedroom
- Kitchen
- Refectory (dinning room)
- Living Room
- …
- …
- …
- Bathroom
Didache on fasting
But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites; for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week; but fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday).
Chapter 8
The Book of Common Prayer has guidelines for fasting – the benchmark!?
what is existentialism?
Existentialism explained in one picture.
perfection in Jesus …
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
And how does that happen …
Therefore when thou doest thine alms …
And when thou prayest …
Moreover when ye fast …
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
And …
Asceticism is a lifestyle of simple living and self-discipline focused on abstinence, self-denial, and spiritual growth.
a fool and his prayer book 