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Difficult prey (Saint Basil the Great)

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The word of truth is a difficult prey because it easily escapes those who aren’t paying attention, because the Spirit ordained that it should be short and swift. This is so that much can be expressed briefly and it can be easily retained in the memory. In any case, the natural virtue of the word is neither to conceal meaning in opaqueness nor to embellish it with superfluous words and things of no gravitas.

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I’ve gone and caught God! (Vasilios Grillas, Theologian)

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Children first for communion! Just look at that. The first to take communion are the decrepit who’ve got so many illnesses and then the rest! We should take communion from a one-time only spoon. There are so many illnesses going about! People who are dying take communion from the same chalice? That’s unacceptable! Don’t tell me that the priests drink what’s left in the chalice. I’m sure they pour it away. I go to church, but don’t ask me to take communion. It’s disgusting. All that saliva. Yuck! Children shouldn’t be taking communion. Look at all the viruses there are around. And yet, you hear opinions like this expressed from the mouths of Christians. It’s disappointing, but true, unfortunately. There’s no need to make a count ...

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