How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dea… - Alexander Schmemann
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dea…
- Alexander Schmemann
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s… - Alexander Schmemann
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s…
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God. - Alexander Schmemann
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo… - Alexander Schmemann
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo…
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world. - Alexander Schmemann
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.
Academic theology is false. - Alexander Schmemann
Academic theology is false.
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.' - Alexander Schmemann
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simpl… - Alexander Schmemann
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simpl…
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, rel… - Alexander Schmemann
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, rel…
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