New blog on my blogroll: Abbot Joseph’s “Word Incarnate”
Found another great blog: Word Incarnate by Abbot Joseph, superior of Holy Transfiguration Monastery (aka Mt Tabor Monastery), a Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholic monastic community in Redwood Valley, CA. I added it to my blogroll. Here’s a brief quote from the post that caught my attention:
Simply put, what the Church (and all humanity) needs most urgently and fundamentally is genuine mysticism. That is the lifeblood of souls and of the Church, the hidden “river of life” essential to spiritual vitality and the fulfillment of God’s dream for the perfection of his Bride.
If we trade in the search for God for the search for self-satisfaction, divine truth for political correctness, contemplation for committees, inner stillness for restless busyness, and silent solitude for back-slapping fellowship, we are fleeing from the essence of the Christian mystery. Not that there is no place for external activities and functions. They are necessary in their own right. But the Church is essentially the mystical Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ—not the “Office For Trying to Solve More Problems Than We Can Handle and For Creating New Ones of Our Own.”
To read the whole post go here: On the Mystical Life.
