Repetition

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I was asking God again why we have so much repetition in church (funny, I was on the way back from the gymn, where for some reason I never question the need for repetition!), and immediately the image came to mind of a slow continual drip of water on hard rock, shaping it over time. Then that day or the very next I saw this quote, which a friend of mine (coincidentally) put on Facebook:

"A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently, hollows out hard rock." St. Isaac the Syrian

So...it's not that God likes lists of things (litanies, confessions, etc.) but that God is so kind as to transform our hard hearts gradually and gently!

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