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rescued by the ONE 

Constantine? What did ye think? 

I thought it showed some fatherneo moments…

St. Basil reports that lay folk would walk for hours in the cold to hear a priest that was not plugged in.

UNPLUGGED 

St. Athanasius was unplugged. Why? Because he was able to withstand the onslaught of plugged in bishops. No brown-nosing from this one. He was close to the ONE even while living in a plugged in imposed dark world.

Being the idealist and the maximalist that I am, I can’t help but look to the Church of the 2nd and 3rd Century. Of course I have no romantic notions that the Church in that era (or any era) was perfect, but it’s funny how dedication increases when the lions are breathing down your neck.

Still, what can we be today? “How they love one another”–Epistle to Diognetes. There’s a start. “True religion is caring for orphans and widows”–James. That would be nice.
I sure would like to see more than a “form of godliness” that doesn’t deny its power. As Constantine said, through the waters of baptism we are unplugged from the Matrix. We are given the Holy Spirit, but where is the power? I don’t mean charismatic emotionalism, but the apostolic power that is supposed to coarse through the veins of those who participate in the Sacramental life?

Constantine,

Fill me in on yourself a bit. Why the name? I saw the movie last week–what were your thoughts? Or are you taking Emperor C’s name?

What will you do? What will you do when THE ONE to whom all hearts are open , all desires known, and to whom no secrets are hid, sees you for who you are? Will you take the cup of living water or will you return to the muddy cisterns of darkness? -Fr. Timothy

The Choir of Saints has discovered the fountain of life and the door to Paradise. May I also find the way through repentance. I am the sheep that is lost: O Savior, call me back and save me.

“Let me be fodder for wild beasts–that is how I can get to God. I am God’s wheat and I am being ground by the teeth of wild beasts to make a pure loaf for THE ONE . I would rather that you fawn on the beasts so that they may be my tomb and no scrap of my body be left. Thus, when I have fallen asleep, I shall be a burden to no one. Then I shall be a real disciple of THE ONE when the world sees my body no more.”

A man truly unplugged from the Matrix

The light has come into the world, and men loved darkenss rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God