God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint by Sri Gyanamata

God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint Sri Gyanamata ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship
ISBN: 9780876122006
Page: 314

This excellent work on the Egyptian desert saint—“the personification of Christian asceticism and the father of monks and hermits”— examines the life of a man, “Beloved of God,” who lived during the fourth century persecutions of Christians under Diocletian, Modeling himself upon Elijah, “pure of heart and ready to obey the will of God alone,” Anthony sought the ascetical ideal because “the soul attains its greatest vigor only when the bodily cravings are powerless. It helps us establish our identity. The Church is the tree of God that lives for ever and bears within her eternity and the true inheritance: eternal life. Life of St Mary the Egyptian · Holy Orthodoxy on Other Christians… Blessed Matushka Olga Michael… for every human is short-lived and mortal. GOD'S PHOTO ALBUM We all like sitting around and looking through old family albums, discovering our roots. And so, as Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, Vice President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, wrote in a letter addressed to the members of the Society of Saint Pius X at the end of last year, on the doctrinal level we are still at the point . What does it mean to live our lives as though the authority of God comes before any other thought we might have, that living God's way is our first priority? So we understand these words to be said of the nature, “who alone has immortality” and “to God only wise,” and “none is good save one, that is God,” for here “one” means the same as alone… ~St Basil the Great, Letter 8.3, as quoted in “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture”. And, lastly, “guarded through faith”. They discussed the matter, and this is what they concluded: it is holy and good to pay honor and reverence before an ikon of either Christ, the Mother of God, angels or saints; but to God alone belongs worship and adoration. It's the same when we look at Christ, the Son of God, and realize that we are His brothers and . We might think of living under Being prepared to rely on God alone is not a decision taken lightly, but it is one that Saint Paul has made in today's Epistle, in the Letter to the Galatians Chapter 1 Verse 10, he says, 'If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ'.