Each
Wednesday during Lent the church community will meet after the Liturgy of
Presantified Gifts for a Lenten pot-luck dinner in the Family Life Center.
Following dinner, Father Christos will lead a discussion of a few chapters of Ascetics in the World.
From a bookseller:
Sanctity is not the exclusive
privilege of monastics and priests, but rather a possibility for every
Christian who has correct faith, repentance, and a mindset to struggle. This
collection, by an anonymous monk on the Holy Mountain, includes the biographies
of pious clergymen and laypeople who lived in Greece from the Turkish
occupation down to today. Their strong faith and love for Christ motivated them
to keep the commandments and to undertake great ascetic struggles (fasts,
vigils, prostrations).
“In this collection are presented biographies of people who lived in
various parts of Greece and other countries, and at various times in the
Turkish Occupation down to today. They were of different ages, races, and
states (clergymen or laypeople, family men or lay monastics). They each had
their character and their personal struggle, but they also had some common characteristics
between them: strong faith and great love for Christ." (from the Prologue)
View the Be the Bee video regarding the
release of Ascetics in the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9alxcXkUE
We will be
meeting March 13, 20, 27, April 3 and 10. The Liturgy of the Presantified Gifts is
scheduled for 6:00 P.M. and the Lenten Potluck and discussion at 7:00 P.M at the Family Life Center. The
book is be available in the church bookstore and library.
Please note:
It is always recommended that spiritual literature be discussed with your
spiritual father or mother, or father confessor.
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