Orthodixie
“The present world-wide spiritual crisis — is it not a preparation for a great, fresh renaissance? What is happening now in individual souls can be occurring in a multitude of souls. And it could be like a mighty flood, like a blinding flash of lightning in the midnight dark. The little piece of History allotted to us can and ought to be a period for us in which to assimilate being in all its dimensions. In the light of this hope our very sufferings are like the unwrapping before us of a grandiose picture. ‘Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge’ (Ps.19:2) if they are spent in prayer which goes out ‘to the end of the world.’ Its [prayer’s] going forth is ‘from the end of heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof’ (Ps.19:6). It both warms and rejoices us. It is the channel conveying revelation from on High.
‘Blessed be the Name of our God now and for ever.’
Taken from On Prayer by Archimandrite Sophrony.
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In