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Martin Luther as portrayed in the Film: "Luther"

"LiVE in PRayER / LiVE in PEAcE / LiVE in PuRity: LiVE in CHRiSt"

                                                   

                                                      “Be still, and know that I am God:                                                                  I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.” 

-Psalm 46:10

 

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"Dietrich Bonhoeffer On Monasticism"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Thoughts About the Old Monasticism:

 

“The expansion of Christianity and the increasing secularization of the Church caused the awareness of Costly Grace to be gradually lost…

 

It was decisive that Monasticism did not separate from the Church and that the Church had the good sense to tolerate Monasticism.

 

Here, on the Boundary of the Church was the place where

the Awareness that Grace is Costly and that Grace includes Discipleship was Preserved.

 

Monastic life thus Became a Living Protest Against the Cheapening of Grace.”

 

                -Dietrich Bonhoeffer                     The  Cost of Discipleship  (P.46)

 

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Thoughts About A New Monasticism:

 

“...the restoration of the church will surely come only from

 

a new type of monasticism 

 

which has nothing in common with the old but a complete lack of compromise

 

in a life lived in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount in the discipleship of Christ. 

 

I think it is time to gather people together to do this…”

 

  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Extract of a letter written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his brother Karl-Friedrick on the 14th of January, 1935.

(Source: John Skinner, Northumbria Community)

"How the Irish were Saved: The Culture and Faith of Celtic Christians"
"The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"How the Irish Saved Civilization" (2nd half of the Book Only: St. Patrick to the Celtic Monks' Evangelization of Europe)
"Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Prayer as a Total Lifestyle: Learning from the Greatest Lives of Prayer" by S.G. Preston
The Glory of God's Creation: Almost all of the spectacular mountain glacier pictures you see posted throughout our website, were taken by Lay Monk Preston & Lay Monk Linda when they were blessed to be able to travel through Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. Most of the other beautiful mountain and ocean photos, they took locally here in Washington and Oregon. Some of the photos were taken by them when they visited Mexico, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

SAyiNGS Of tHE dESERT FAtHERs (St. ANtHONY the GREAt, Of EGYPt):

 

Someone once asked

St. Anthony,

 

What must I do

to please God?’ 

 

The old man replied,

‘Pay

attention

to what I tell you:

 

Wherever you go, always have

God before your eyes.

 

Whatever you do,

do it

according to the testimony

of the Scriptures.’ 

 

Some of the Brothers were not

satisfied with this reply and

said to him,

 

‘Abba Anthony, we

would also like a word from

you.’ 

 

Then Monk Anthony told them,

 

‘The Gospel says,

If someone strikes you on the

right cheek,

 

turn the other to them also.’ 

 

 

They answered, ‘We cannot do

that.’ 

 

Anthony said to them,

‘If you

cannot offer the other one,

at least allow them to strike you

on one cheek.’ 

 

They replied, ‘We cannot even do

that.’ 

 

If you cannot even do that,’ said

Monk Anthony,

 

‘do not pay back the evil that you

have received. 

 

The Brothers answered, ‘We

cannot do this either.’ 

 

Then the old man said to one of

his disciples, 

Prepare a little broth for

them, for they are ill. 

 

If you cannot do this, and you will not do that,

what can I do for you? 

 

You are in need of prayer.’” 

 

-Sayings of the Desert Fathers 

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