illness manifest

"As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism,
       mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality,
         to devour everything and
         to define everything by itself,
    as long as that foundation is visible, 
    as long as this truly original sin exists within us,
        we have no business here
   and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people
    who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented
      and suddenly someone in the crowd asks,
"What are we to do?"...
The only possible answer is
"Look for a cure".
Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick,
      there can be no cure."

     - Vladimir Solovyov     ( + 1900 )

where did this come from

“Acquire a peaceful spirit,
 and then thousands of others
around you
will be saved.”

















--St Seraphim




















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Let's hear it for modern social management

"What would an apology do for me?
You don't know what my kids were going to be.
You don't know what kids God was going to give me."

 
    NIAL RAMIREZ (sterilized at 18 in N. Carolina eugenics program in 1960)

Ursa proclaims

"Russians, we are like bears,
       we are so patient.
    But when our patience ends,
then we begin to growl!"

     Galine Pokpova

Invitation to communion 2012

Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof,
but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.



  - from the revised catholic missal


























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