Wisdom of the Eastern Fathers, Lent 02/17/2018

“If from the start we had wanted to keep the commandments and to remain as we were when baptized, we would not have fallen into so many sins of have needed the trials and tribulations of repentance. If we fail to repent, inevitably we will depart… into agelong punishment, more by our own free choice than against our will. Yet God did not create us for wrath but for salvation.”

-St. Peter of Damaskos

For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

Let no riches make me ever forget myself,

no poverty make me to forget you;

let no hope or fear, no pleasure or pain,

no accident without, no weakness within,

hinder or discompose my duty,

or turn me from the ways of your commandments.

Let your Spirit dwell in me forever,

make my soul just and charitable,

full of honesty and of religion,

resolute and constant in holy purposes.

Jeremy Taylor

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