Wednesday, March 30, 2005

give us this day our daily bread

...the nature that is temperate and content with little according to the ideas of apatheia should be made equal to the [angelic] nature that has no material needs at all...

Ask for bread because life needs it, and you owe it to the body because of your nature...[but] if the soul is perpetually occupied with [vanities] it remains atrophied itself.

St. Gregory of Nyssa.

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