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Our breath (Elder Tadej Vitovničk)

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We often forget that we’re just passing visitors in this life and that therefore we should pray constantly, because prayer is the breath of the soul. Prayer draws energy from the source of Life, the Lord, Who guards, preserves and nourishes all beings.

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‘Dance, Creation, on Hearing of the Birth of the Young Child’ (Kontakio of the Forefeast of the Nativity) (Hieromonk Serapion of Simonopetra Monastery †)

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Together with the hymnographer, we wonder profoundly, are at a loss and astonished at the incomprehensible mystery of Christ’s incarnation, which natural time has brought us to celebrate once again this year. What is really beyond understanding, of course, is the line ‘dance, world on hearing of the birth of the young child’. Is this phrase poetic license or does the hymn-writer see and hear something else? How does the whole of creation dance? Symbolically, metaphorically? Does it, then, experience the presence of our unapproachable God Who has impoverished Himself? How is it that the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, the mountains and dales, the rivers and waterways, the billows of the sea, the ice and rain, the light and the darkness, ...

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