Hey everyone - just checking in to say I haven’t forgotten all of you, especially the subscribers, and to say “sorry” and “whoops” for being relatively quiet here since the move back from DC. I’m working on some content and also a more regular posting schedule that I will get going once I’m settled in my new assignment after July 1st.
Til then, enjoy this great tidbit from St. Cyprian (+258AD) in yesterday’s Office of Readings:
All Christ did, all he taught, was the will of God. Humility in our daily lives, an unwavering faith, a moral sense of modesty in conversion, justice in acts, mercy in deed, discipline, refusal to harm others, a readiness to suffer harm, peaceableness with our brothers, a wholehearted love of the Lord, loving in him what is of the Father, fearing him because he is God, preferring nothing to him who preferred nothing to us, clinging tenaciously to his love, standing by his cross with loyalty and courage whenever there is any conflict involving his honor and his name, manifesting in our speech the constancy of our profession and under torture confidence for the fight, and in dying the endurance for which we will be crowned—this is what it means to wish to be a coheir with Christ, to keep God’s command; this is what it means to do the will of the Father.
One of my favorite readings of the year. Take it to prayer.
Peace
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