These lines from Pseudo-Macarius's Third Homily (5th or early 6th c.) encapsulate what this nothing consecrated Catholic hermit and basic God-created soul desires:
"And the Lord has clothed them with the garments of the kingdom of unspeakable light, the garment of faith, hope, love, joy, peace, goodness, human warmth, and all the other divine and living garments of life, light, and ineffable tranquility. The result is that, as God is love and joy and peace and kindness and goodness, so too the new man may become by grace."
Have been trying to turn over a new leaf. Am ashamed of behavior of these past two years. Too much negativity; darkness had entered in. By the grace of God and being touched by the Holy Spirit and nudged by the guardian angel, Beth, am striving to be opened by His grace--opened like a shuttered window, stuck far too long.
The sun has been shining; and tonight, a full moon lights the darkness.
God bless His Real Presence IN us: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Have been trying to turn over a new leaf. Am ashamed of behavior of these past two years. Too much negativity; darkness had entered in. By the grace of God and being touched by the Holy Spirit and nudged by the guardian angel, Beth, am striving to be opened by His grace--opened like a shuttered window, stuck far too long.
The sun has been shining; and tonight, a full moon lights the darkness.
God bless His Real Presence IN us: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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