dear brothers and sisters of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the many ways I have offended God and you:
willingly and unwillingly,
known and unknown,
by action and omission,
by word and deed and thought.
And beseech God for me that he may have mercy on me.
The unworthy priest and fool,
Fr. Gregory
"One hears that, in foreign lands, people are now learning to swim, lying on the floor, with the aid of equipment. In the same way, one can become a Catholic or Protestant without experiencing life at all--by reading books in one's study. But to become Orthodox, it is necessary to immerse oneself all at once in the very element of Orthodoxy, to begin living in an Orthodox way. There is no other way."--Fr. Pavel Florensky
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