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Source: Richard Rohr's Article: https://cac.org/seeing-the-divine-image-everywhere-2018-12-23/
Richard Rohr Meditation: Made in the Divine Image
Center for Action and Contemplation
Oct 26, 2021, 11:24 PM
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
From the Center for Action and Contemplation
Made in the Divine Image
Father Richard views religion’s purpose as reminding us of who we truly are:
The essential work of religion is to help us recognize and recover the divine image in ourselves and everything else too. Whatever we call it, this ‘image of God’ is absolute and unchanging. There is nothing we can do to increase or decrease it. It is not ours to decide who has it or does not have it. It is a pure and total gift, given equally to all. [1]
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HOMILIES ST ISAAC FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY |
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-FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY.
7:1The noetic renewal of the saints is the crown of the intellect and the understanding which have communion with God through the revelation of His glorious mysteries, but the universal renewal is the general resurrection of all. |
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HOMILIES ST ISAAC FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY |
HOMILIES ST ISAAC Epistle to Abba Symeon |
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Part II – An Epistle to Abba Symeon of Caesarea.
(The Greek printed text addresses this epistle to Symeon the Wonderworker, while the Greek manuscripts have Abba Symeon of Caesarea. Judging merely by the content of the epistle it seems most unlikely that it was written to Saint Symeon of the Wondrous Mountain (Near Antioch) who is also called the Wonderworker).
Your Epistle, O Holy Man, is not simply written words, but as in a mirror you have depicted therein and made manifest your love for us. As you think us to be, so have you written; and you have shown by your very actions that you love us exceedingly, so that on account of your great love, you forget our measure. For that which it were meet for us to write to your holiness and to ask, so as to learn the truth from you (if we were solicitous over our own salvation), this you have anticipated and written to us by reason of the magnitude of your love. But probably you did this with the art of [[divine]] philosophy, so that by means of the subtle and spiritual questions you ask me, my soul
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