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The bit about embracing the paradox reminded me of this quote from Andrei Corna:
"The true faith was always identified by the Church Fathers by postulating the most improbable thing. All heresies are forms of rationalization. All of them. And the true faith is a way of raising our faith to the level of the paradox, leaving aside, either to the left or to the right, the rationalization. Arius rationalizes. The Monophysites, the Monothelitism, the Nestorians, rationalize. That is, they offer an interpretation either of the Trinitarian problem (the Arians), or of the Christological problem (the others), that is much more intelligible in the terms of Greek philosophy, but that doesn't cover the content of the Christian faith. This is what I call the genius of Christianity”
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My husband, a former Deacon, and I are building the Union of All Orthodox Christian Healing Arts Center in our beeswax candle factory/ print mount icon shop in an 8000 square foot warehouse on the highway into Yosemite near St Silouan ROCOR monastery and near St Susanna OCA mission. We’re having a room that will be like a living room for small groups, for counseling (I used to be a cognitive clinical psychologist), Bible study, the Jesus Prayer, daily prayer. It will also be a giftshop for candles, icons, our olive oil (40 trees) art etc. All of our books will be there for sharing and book clubs. The other larger room will be for conferences with invited speakers, exercise, dance, music! And anyone who wants to join me), art shows, etc. We have an encaustic art studio for folks to come and work on their own art projects, encaustic workshops, etc. We have two large infrared saunas and a floatation therapy tank (the Dead Sea in a box) to help people include the body and deepen their stillness in prayer experience. Out our back door we have the Red Hills which is its own ecosystem and microclimate, very desert like in summer with caves for prayer. We just got the property next door to build a mini RV park and Lord willing some permanent Orthodox folks. We want to grow food and maybe have chickens etc.
I know it sounds wild but St Elisabeth and St John of SF inspired it. We are only an hour from the myrrh bearing relics of St Sebastian Dabovich who was a great Serbian missionary priest in the Motherlode.
We are almost ready to open and pray to be a place for all to come to be loved in Christ. We live there full time in an RV. Come and see! 🙏🏻☦️🙏🏻
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The American story is what it is, it's there if you can see it through the lens of what it is and what it is not- it is not the unified cultural story of European countries like Russia. It is the Greatest Story ever told, of God created, and it is the stories of the American Indians and the explorers, and the European settlers who came to each region and the specific people groups who settled each of those places in the North, South, East, and West which can also be broken down into each distinct cultural community that was settled within those areas. At some point every story is going to have to be analyzed, broken down, and explained. Y'all (Orthodox) do this outside of your own liturgy when you do Bible studies, and publish books explaining Chrysostom's liturgy, so there is a time a place for both- the rational (catechesis) and the experiential. Western Christianity has been retelling pagan stories for a long time. Perhaps changing a story only really works well if we truly understand the original story first?? Each war changes the story of the loser of the battle because the winner changes the loser's story. Has the Russian/European who thinks Americans are shallow missed a shared humanity? You don't know what you don't know until you know.
You cannot deny Perfect Community- The Supremacy of Christ and His Father and Spirit; and expect to keep your own community intact. You cannot deny your own God given humanity and the God given humanity of other people and expect to keep your own community intact. You cannot deny the flourishing of God and your own flourishing and think that you will preserve the flourishing of your neighbor. You cannot claim to understand God's truths about the flourishing of the humanity He created while misunderstanding God Himself, and yourself, and everyone else made in God's image.
Love First Things things done lightly- especially the friendship. Keep up the good work!
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