tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436952.post1032670587841807557..comments2023-04-05T08:43:04.407-07:00Comments on Spruce Island: God Bless the OCAFr. Justin (Edward)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02552984147798120208noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436952.post-7913959113033388822007-03-23T08:49:00.000-07:002007-03-23T08:49:00.000-07:00YES. i hear you dave. i am also hearted by thier ...YES. i hear you dave. i am also hearted by thier willingness to be challenged and by relentlessly seeking the truth. i am reassured by it, that they, once they saw that actually it was a problem, did not hide, did not deny... the sanity and peace that this gives is incredible... <BR/><BR/>i was at the Cathedral yesterday for the Canon, which was wonderful; all candles and darkness and the battle towards repentance and i found myself thinking how freeing it is - to acknowledge before God in church praying the canon that i am a sinner, yea even the chief of sinners... <BR/><BR/>i did not know before (before i was orthodox, before i heard that we need live a life of repentance) how good and freeing this is. <BR/><BR/>blessed lent, this is. May God keep us all to the end...elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436952.post-2579648443585067092007-03-23T08:04:00.001-07:002007-03-23T08:04:00.001-07:00Healing comes through brutal and often uncomplimen...Healing comes through brutal and often uncomplimentary honesty.<BR/><BR/>Often when we are publicly shamed by our particular sins, we flee them in the future. Let's pray that this happens here too.<BR/><BR/>"Lord, grant me to see my own sins, and not to judge my brother." - easy to say, not so easy to do.Bro Cyphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07539165611409977984noreply@blogger.com