Father Justin's Blog

Wooden beams supporting the parapet cast shadows along the rampart at the northeast corner of the fortress wall.

A beautiful passage from the Fifty Spiritual Homilies of Saint Macarius:

Imitate her then, my child; imitate her whose eyes were fixed upon nothing but Him only, who said, ‘I am come to send fire upon the earth, and I would that it were already kindled’. There is indeed a burning of the Spirit, […]