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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“The professions and trades of those who are going to be accepted into the community must be examined. The nature and type of each must be established… brothel, sculptors of idols, charioteer, athlete, gladiator…give it up or be rejected. A military constable must be forbidden to kill, neither may he swear; if he is not willing to follow these instructions, he must be rejected. A proconsul or magistrate who wears the purple and governs by the sword shall give it up or be rejected.”
~ Hippolytus (170AD – 236AD)
This week's Psalm is Psalm 30 'Joy Comes With The Morning'

The Message From Eastern Orthodoxy

In the vision of the Eastern Orthodox Church this abiding grows even deeper, into the radiant mystery of participation in God Himself. Athanasius of Alexandria (c.296–373 AD) who was a 4th-century theologian, bishop, and “Church Father”, declared that the Word became man so that humanity might share the life of God. Athanasius was a champion of the divinity of Christ, vigorously opposing those who argued that Jesus was merely a man. Centuries later Gregory Palamas (1296–1359 AD) who was a renowned Byzantine theologian, Archbishop of Thessalonika, and a monk of Mount Athos, taught that through divine grace we partake of God’s living energies. Gregory was a great defender of ‘hesychia’ the spiritual discipline of inner stillness through which we may best hear the voice of God speaking to our soul.