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1/29/06_____________________________________ Survey:
How found:
I
came across your website by "Google searching" a book
review of Bainton's
biography of Martin Luther. 1/28/06_____________________________________
Please, I want to represent you in Ghana. Please keep me
informed with any good news. Thank you once again.
Yours faithfully,
Edmund (Ghana)
1/27/06_____________________________________ My name is Patrick and I am incredibly intrigued by
your website. I have been a Christian for 32 years and lived in a Christian community for
about five years in the mid-seventies. I am married and...have
been teaching in the Calvary Chapel School of Ministry for a few
years. I teach college level classes in Church History, Apologetics and
O.T. Survey. I
have been a teacher and lay preacher for several years now teaching and preaching
on a wide variety of subjects. "If my account of our moral condition is
correct, we ought to conclude that for some time now we too have reached
a turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of
local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and
moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages, we are not
entirely without grounds for hope...We are waiting not for a God willing, may our paths cross. 1/24/06_____________________________________ Greetings, 1/20/06_____________________________________
I am the Sr. Associate Pastor of a Southern Baptist
Church in Florida. I stumbled upon your site and was blessed and
encouraged by it. I am interested in the entire Heroes
of the Faith book series...
In Christ,
Dennis B. (Florida) 1/18/06_____________________________________ Hello, my friends. I am happy to have come across your website, by the Grace of God. I sent for the Monk Certificate and Card...my life has already changed considerably just knowing that I am following a dream of life finally coming to fruition, at last. I am so grateful to you. God love and Bless you richly. Radiance and Abundance, Theresa C. (Bronx, New York) 1/17/06_____________________________________
Greetings in
the name of Jesus!
I haven't communicated to you
folks in awhile. The congregation where I serve the Lord (as
Pastor: Charismatic Presbyterian) has become a House of Prayer
for Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday. I have recently embraced
(again) a daily
hours; we have a weekly prayer vigil for the churches in the
city, I have been able to establish a school of Prayer
Evangelism...and soon to be added a school of prayer (this is more a
mentoring school for prayer and the disciplines). We also run a
quarterly "community of the cross" that functions like a
"community" Abbey and Cloister. And we have
established an annual five days of prayer prior to
Pentecost.
...the Daily
Hours schedule that you provide on this site...I really like
the simplicity of this format.
Thanks.
For King and Kingdom!
Monk Bernie (Welland, Ontario)
1/15/06_____________________________________ Thank you!
Today I read the Faith Chapter -- Hebrews 11 -- as well as Ecclesiastes
3 (in: Daily
Prayer: Praying the Hours). I've been reading in the Amplified
Bible, and it gave me a lot to think about when reading Hebrews 11
today. I love how it "amplifies" the scripture. I've noticed you have book
reviews and movie
reviews on your website, 1/14/06_____________________________________ Survey:
I have long been affiliated with monasticism,
and was looking for something more exactly attuned to my spirituality.
I found you by searching through listed orders on the internet. There might be a tad Too much information and too many pages on your site, but it is so much fun to look around it, that I wouldn't change it! I am still prayerfully considering becoming a monk in your order... I was taken with the bold listing of "Lady Monk", and the Celtic ambience of the whole website. I am already a woman monastic, and I am decidedly Celtic. I also enjoyed the simplicity, prayerfulness, and green richness of the "look" of your website. I loved the attentiveness to the work of prayer, and the fact that you are truly believers, and inclusive of diverse Christian spiritualities. Lorrin (Woodland, California) 1/9/06_____________________________________ Just had
a few comments… I went over the site in a cursory way as there is a
lot of material to run through! A very nice collection. One of
the things that is useful to many folks who visit our site is the
habitual aspect of prayer. We receive a regular stream of
visitors to both our online chapel and daily readings pages – they
rank highest for traffic of any other component on our site (www.goarch.org). I have
been to New Skete on the east coast, which perhaps you are
familiar with – there may be some connection in their development of
the ‘Companions’ model of monasticism that integrate former
marital coexistence with some level of personal prayer life and
reflection. Overall their example, and sites like yours, show
that monastic worship and aspiration are not something to be put on a
pedestal – nor do they presume too much. I suppose this goes
along with breaking down the wall that often imposes itself on our
lives – a wall between the presence of God and the existence of us
as people and ourselves and all the complications that brings to the
balance. The
development of quasi-spiritual boundaries is a concern, really, as
monasticism of the east enters the ‘new world’ and brings along
with it the complexities of Hellenism and philosophy, etc. I can
see many people turning your way in the future – there is often a
strain of temptation related to power when living amongst a community
of those who strive for communion and wholesome intimacy with
God. In the orthodox world we see it in the abuse of certain
stations of power, but also in a number of doctrines that are entirely
authentic and within the tradition of several popular monasteries, but
can often stand in the way of the simple and essential absorption of
the gospel of Christ. While I have worked in my own life and
research to face these paths and yet still get to Christ, it is a
difficult battle when faced with so many traditions claiming
authenticity yet leading in arcs that promise quick knowledge of the
gospel. I am sure that others who struggle with this battle for
the gospel will find your approach clean and insightful. The way
is simple, direct and possible. One of
the jokes that I sent to my mentor was the cover for an edition of the
Philokalia put out by Light and Life publishing… where the
book was titled: “The
Philokalia: The
irony I’m sure isn’t lost on you. I hope that your community
is successful in maintaining high integrity to the gospel and that you
will be able to withstand the gravity of the innumerable remarkable
aspects of monasticism throughout the ages. Yours, ____________________________________________________________ Next Previous Page of Letters (Page 57) E-mail Your Comments to: monks@prayerfoundation.org Copyright © 2006 S.G.P. All rights reserved. Next Next Topic Comments Index
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