Prayer is spiritual breathing

December 3, 2006, 11:48 am
From the Orthquote list, 18 Nov 2006:

From St. John of Kronstadt (My Life in Christ; Holy Trinity Monastery pg. 174):
 
"Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; “praying in the Holy Spiritâ€? (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment."



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Is Saturday the True Sabbath?

December 3, 2006, 11:46 am
"Obviously, then, the challenge to the Catholic comes on several fronts; first, we must examine the argument that the seventh-day Sabbath was truly "given as a sign forever, and a perpetual covenant"; next, we must show from Scripture that the apostles did, in fact, worship on Sunday; finally, we have to answer the accusation that it was a pope (or council) who imposed the change, and that this was not done until (at the earliest) the mid-to-late 4th century."

For the answers to these questions, see Dies Domini: Is Saturday the True Sabbath? on Lumen Gentleman's site.


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