The Ascetical Life of Blessed Seraphim (Rose) of Platina

From The Ascetic Life of Fr. Seraphim Rose, by Father Seraphim’s spiritual son, Father Alexey Young:
I had the privilege of knowing him from 1966, around the time of the repose of St. Archbishop John Maximovitch, who was his spiritual father. Fr. Seraphim was a layman at that time–he didn’t even have the famous beard of [...]

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13,515 Days Ago, in a Kansas Town Far, Far Away . . .

At 11:09 in the a.m., on this date way back when, I came into the world prematurely. At five pounds, fifteen inches, I was a tiny thing, and had to be on oxygen for a couple of weeks. I was two weeks old before my mother could even hold me. But [...]

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Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm VI

Annie Dillard ends her meditations with a prayer for Julie.
There is Julie Norwich. Julie Norwich is salted with fire. She is preserved like a salted fillet from all evil, baptized at birth into time and now into eternity, into the bladelike arms of God. For who will love her now, without a [...]

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