http://www.stvladimirs.ca/library/

This may be an interesting direction toward a move of Spirit...

caritas,

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That's a great web site, Michael! I've found great benefit through the years from Orthodox mysticism and theology. We need to reconnect with them to have a fuller grasp of the Christian spirituality, I believe.

see http://aggreen.net/beliefs/beliefs.html for another informative site.

Phil,


That is a good site and I'll read more of it when I get time. I went to a Western Orthodox church
for awhile and experienced something I had missed in
Protestant Land- reverence for Mary Theotokos -Mother of God.

I went straight to the Most Holy Mother of God, Save Us! article and I feel their approach is more balanced that the outright neglect of the Protestant churches and the goddess worship on the
other extreme. I wonder how she feels about all this?

Thomas Merton wrote a little on Eastern Orthodoxy but he seemed to think that they were overdoing it a bit.

Read a book called Russian Mystics and there were some real prodigies and hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns before Lenin rubbed them out and Stalin made latrines and garbage dumps out of the monasteries.

The Way of a Pilgrim got me started on the whole mystical prayer practice and the kundalini
or whatever you want to call it has carried me along ever since, so I owe a great deal to the tradition.

caritas,

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http://therussiajournal.com/index.htm?obj=2203

Growing pains in the free world. I hope they start up some monasteries again.

J.P. II continues to gain the world's respect and admiration as a healer of old wounds. It does not take a lawyer to see that the case for keeping the relics was valid. This is going above and beyond the
call.
These are the bones of some very great mystics, and
their lives are still bearing testimony for God.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...thodox.ap/index.html

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