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The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or
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― Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
― Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
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If you are forgetful of the Lord, you will not pray, and without prayer the soul will not dwell in the love of God, for the grace of the Holy Spirit comes through prayer.
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― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
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