Apologies

It looks like at least some of my translations are going to be put on hold for an indeterminate time as my translation checker, that is, my wife, has given birth to our first born son. As he was born on the day of St. Symeon the New Theologian, that is, March 12/25, I offer [...]

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Family tree

Each of us is Adam …each of us is of Christ …Just as corruption and death come down from generation to generation from the old Adam, so also incorruption and immortality come down to Christians from the new Adam.
St. Symeon the New Theologian
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For those who disparage our modern holy fathers:

A man who does not express desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust of him, will never be linked with the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith [...]

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Self-Interpreting Scripture?

Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of Greek and worldly wisdom, in which house, like a tightly locked trunk, there is the knowledge of the divine Scriptures, and the unutterable treasure hidden in this knowledge of the Scriptures, that is, Divine grace. Those who enter this house cannot see this treasure [...]

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The task of modern Cross bearers

In times past, when heresies prevailed, many chose death through martyrdom and various tortures. Now, when we through the grace of Christ live in a time of profound and perfect peace, we learn for sure that cross and death consist in nothing else that the complete mortification of self-will. He who pursues his own will, [...]

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