Tag: Orthodoxy
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Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives
Cologero had mentioned this book, coincidentally, at the same time that I had stumbled across it myself, so I finally made the purchase, and finished reading it. I found it most helpful; Elder Thaddeus is simultaneously very strict (insofar as he sets out an arduous teaching) and yet very compassionate, encouraging, and “human”: at one…
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Excerpt from Forming the Soul
The following is an excerpt from a tract circulated within the Orthodox Word; it was written by the Sisters of St. Xenia’s Skete. A good friend of mine gave it to me a long while ago. There is food for thought here, as the writer(s) argue that old Western culture can be a sort of…