Sunday, August 12, 2012

"...Ground of the Soul..."


"In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature." - Johannes Tauler (1300 - 1361)

Friday, August 10, 2012

Silence

Abba Ammonas - Ora pro nobis
Behold my beloved, I have shown you the power of silence, how thoroughly it heals and how pleasing it is to God. Wherefore I have written to you to show yourselves strong in this work you have undertaken, so that you may know that it is by silence that the saints grew, that it was because of silence that the power of God dwelt in them, because of silence that the mysteries of God were known to them. - Abba Ammonas

A description of the Person of Jesus Christ

A description of the Person of Jesus Christ "As it was found in an ancient manuscript, which was sent by Publius Lentulus, Pre...