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Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 12/16/2017
The Holy Prophet Aggaeus (Haggai); Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem; Our Righteous Mother Blessed Empress Theophania; Nicholas Chrysoberges, Patriarch of Constantinople; Memnonus, Archbishop of Ephesus
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"When you pray, try to let the prayer reach your heart; in other words, it is necessary that your heart should feel what you are talking about in your prayer, that it should wish for the blessing for which you are asking.... Observe, during prayer, whether your heart is in accord with that which you are saying." - St. John of Kronstadt
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Behold the Bridegroom comes in the middle of the night, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching and again unworthy is he whom He shall find heedless. Therefore, O my soul, beware, unless you be weighted down with sleep, unless you be given over to death and be shut out from the kingdom. Rouse yourself, and cry: Holy, Holy, Holy, are You, O God: through the Birthgiver of God have mercy on us.
Meditating on that terrible day, watch, O my soul keeping your lamp lit and filled with oil; for you do not know when the voice will come saying to you: "Behold the Bridegroom!" Therefore, my soul, beware, unless you fall in slumber and be left outside, knocking as the five virgins; but wakefully watch that you may dome to meet Christ with good oil, and He shall bestow on you the divine chamber of His glory.
Sayings From The Church Fathers
The soul speaks and converses during prayer, but at the descent of the Holy Spirit we must remain in complete silence in order to hear clearly and intelligibly all the words of eternal life which He will then deign to communicate.
- St. John of Kronstadt , from The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 3, Little Russian Philokalia Vol. 1; St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood pg. 86):
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Occupy yourself with reading with a calm spirit, so that your mind may be constantly raised up to contemplation of the wondrous acts of God, lifted, as it were, by some hand outstretched to it. " Abba Evagrius
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