Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2)
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1701 Fifth St. NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-781-7667
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Phone: 612-781-7667
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Fr. Andrew Morbey, Dean
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Services are streaming live. ... Suffering from spiritual despondency, convinced that God had abandoned him, he entered the mill church one evening to attend Vespers. There he was granted the vision that enabled him to assume his future struggles with extraordinary strength and peace. It was this vision of the exalted Lord that gave him the ability to assume the ultimate challenge of his spiritual life, expressed in words uttered by God himself: “Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not!” This admonition – this awesome spiritual challenge – was above all an invitation to humility. It represented the assurance, expressed by the Psalmist, “Even if I made my bed in hell, Thou art there!” (Ps. 138/9:13). But it was also a call to spiritual warfare: to struggle, with courage and hope, against the onslaughts of demons and personal temptations. And it served as well to provide the foundation for one of his most important teachings: love for one’s enemies. This is a love so selfless and “disinterested” that it actually transforms the other from an enemy into a brother in Christ. It is a love that marked the monk Silouan so deeply that he could implore God ceaselessly: “Grant that all the peoples of the earth come to know Thee by Thy Holy Spirit!”
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Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2)
