But what of the publican? He stood, it says, “afar off,” not even venturing, so to speak, to raise up his eyes on high. You see him abstaining from all boldness of speech, as having no right thereto, and smitten by the reproaches of conscience: for he was afraid of being even seen by God,Continue reading “St. Cyril of Alexandria on the Pharisee and Publican”
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The Common Place
The Common Place was a book carried by people who wished to collect thoughts, quotations, and memorabilia in a single, common, place. Philip Melanchthon, Robert Burns, John Milton, and Francis Bacon all have published common places, and many other thinkers have ledd famous loci of their own. This blog is an attempt to collect, share,Continue reading “The Common Place”
To Live a Forgiven Life
So to live a “forgiven” life is not simply to live in a happy consciousness of having been absolved. Forgiveness is precisely the deep and abiding sense of what relation—with God or with other human beings—can and should be; and so it is itself a stimulus, an irritant, necessarily provoking protest at impoverished versions ofContinue reading “To Live a Forgiven Life”
Christ the Path
You, O Christ my Savior, have become for me the path of life which leads to the Father. There is but one path, and it is my joy, and at the end of it is the heavenly kingdom. Ephrem the Syrian
Locus Communis 