And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Silent ‘Grand Schema’ Monks of the Russian Orthodox Church, Balaam Monastery, Russisan Karelia 1888
If you want to read some very interesting American History and the influence Valaam and other Russian monasteries played in Alaska, check out Saint Herman of New Valaam and Saint Innocent, Apostle to America. Their lives, especially St. Innocent, read like action adventure. I couldn't live up to half of their energy.
we need more like them....perhaps the asteroid of death would be stayed a while yet, and a return to sanity.
just an FYI, one of the BEST books I've read in a long time; "A Time to Die" on how monks of various monasteries face death. It is unspeakably beautiful and for me, life-changing, especially the last chapter on a Carthusian Monastery. Those guys are the real special forces of God....none better.
You might want NOT to mess with them.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to read some very interesting American History and the influence Valaam and other Russian monasteries played in Alaska, check out Saint Herman of New Valaam and Saint Innocent, Apostle to America. Their lives, especially St. Innocent, read like action adventure. I couldn't live up to half of their energy.
ReplyDeletethese guys gave it ALL to God.
ReplyDeletewe need more like them....perhaps the asteroid of death would be stayed a while yet, and a return to sanity.
just an FYI, one of the BEST books I've read in a long time; "A Time to Die" on how monks of various monasteries face death. It is unspeakably beautiful and for me, life-changing, especially the last chapter on a Carthusian Monastery. Those guys are the real special forces of God....none better.