Monday, February 8, 2010

more from ON HUMAN BEING (using the energy of suffering)

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If at the very moment of falling headlong into suffering, the martyr holds to the Crucified and Risen Lord with all the force of his suffering, and indeed with all the violence of the fall itself, he is pervaded by the power of the resurrection...
And when the political situation changes and martyrdom is temporarily abolished, then the monk appears, who in another way, according to an old saying, 'gives his blood and receives the Spirit.'

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