The Way of the Cross 2024 throughout the streets of Downtown Ottawa Led by Msgr. Marcel Damphousse, Communion and Liberation Ottawa

 Communion and Liberation Ottawa

The Way of the Cross throughout the streets of Downtown Ottawa
Led by Msgr. Marcel Damphousse, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall
9:30am- 12:30 pm  https://www.facebook.com/Clonottawa 

Starting from St. Patrick's Basilica (220 Kent St.)

Ending at Notre-Dame Cathedral (385 Sussex Dr.) 

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The Way of the Cross 2024 throughout the streets of Downtown Ottawa. Led by Msgr. Marcel Damphousse, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall

 Communion and Liberation Ottawa

The Way of the Cross throughout the streets of Downtown Ottawa
Led by Msgr. Marcel Damphousse, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall
9:30am- 12:30 pm  https://www.facebook.com/Clonottawa 

Starting from St. Patrick's Basilica (220 Kent St.)

Ending at Notre-Dame Cathedral (385 Sussex Dr.) 

  clonottawa@gmail.com        https://english.clonline.org 

 

                                            VIDEOS (followed by Photos)

                                                         PHOTOS 

My religion VS spirituality series : Stillness: Hesychasm - The Monastic Tradition of Orthodox Christianity

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yes the word hezek ism is a Greek word

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and it just means Stillness or or

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silence we think of hezekia is the inner

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Stillness and that God himself says be

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still and know that I am God well how do

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we find the place of Stillness in a

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world of chaos especially the kinds of

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kind of world that we live in today with

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such chaos and hurry you know speed and

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uh Rush the tyranny of the Urgent uh how

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do we keep that place of Stillness what

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St Maximus the Confessor speaks of as

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ever moving Stillness that is to say we

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are still we still live in the world but

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in a sense not of the world in a real

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sense not of the world of another way

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another mode of existence well that mode

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mode is this mode hakia this mode of

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Stillness this mode of being centered in

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God uh this mode of of being still and

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knowing that God is God and as the psalm

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goes on that he will exalt his name

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among the Nations the nations are in

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chaos the nations are uh in turmoil

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today more than ever wars and rumors of

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wars and illnesses and pandemics and all

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sorts of things Jesus says you'll see

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these things and at the end of time

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you'll even see them more but you're not

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to be dismayed when you see all these

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things happen look up look up for your

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Redemption draws nigh to look up means

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again you have to use a faculty that God

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has given the human being which we call

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the noetic faculty or The Noose the eyes

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of the heart and so this Jesus prayer

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this this prayer that helps bring us

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into an Ever moving Stillness this

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prayer we often pray is that Lord Jesus

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Christ have mercy on me there are

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different versions it can be a little

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bit longer a little shorter the longer

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version Lord Jesus Christ Son of God

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have mercy on me a sinner there's a

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there's a movement that takes place

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again what St Maximus called ever moving

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Stillness and it finds the place of

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Stillness in the midst of the storm and

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as one Elder told me one time you must

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find that place of

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Stillness and then move as fast as the

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storm

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moves and the question well how do you

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move as fast as the storm moves because

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storms will move you you don't want to

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hit that outside of the of the tornado

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or the hurricane you want to stay in in

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the center and yet ever moving it's the

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Jesus this prayer that helps us and it's

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the cleansing of the Noose this noetic

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faculty that is crucial for finding

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inner

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Stillness because it's the place that

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can see God and know God and to rest in

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God yes this is absolutely crucial to

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enter into the rest of God and not be

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like the people uh in the wilderness

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when when Moses brought the people out

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of bondage and slavery in in Egypt and

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came across the the Red Sea and they

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entered into the Wilderness and they

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begin to Grumble there they begin to

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reason in their mind saying how is God

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going to feed us out here and how how is

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it going to happen and how can we fix

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this by Ways and Means and by our own

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understanding you know one of the

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teachings of uh our hezek castic uh

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elders is to say that you know the

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rational faculty which is so valued in

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the western church in the western let's

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say Western Christianity and the West in

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general that says reason is the highest

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faculty or the doxy would just simply

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say that's not

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true we acknowledge reason it's a

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tremendous gift that God has given us we

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do not denigrate reason we're not

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anti-reason but we are transrational

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people

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we are a people that say the rational

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faculty this of ways and means of trying

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to figure out how to fix things by uh

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human knowledge through reason that this

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only takes us so far we have to

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transcend to a higher realm and that's

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the noetic realm where we rest in God

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and know that he is God his name will be

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exalted in the Nations every knee will

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bow every tongue confess that Jesus

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Christ is Lord and

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so knowing that we we don't have to be

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all wound up when we look around and see

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uh all the tribulations and distresses

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around us uh we we don't get check out

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either but we we stay within that place

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of everm moving rest in God faith that

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he is the Lord and he will accomplish

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his will and his work in this world it

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is his world and so when we hear of all

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the problems in the world we're tempted

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to try to figure them out on on a purely

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rational level and the problem is as all

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the philosophers have said and certainly

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our greatest fathers like St Gregory

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palamas he says you know for every

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rational reason there will be a

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counterargument for every argument a

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counterargument it'll go on and on and

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on and on and on we saw this so often in

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the we see it all around us in in the

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politics of our day arguments from both

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sides based on a certain rationalistic

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approach it can't answer the deepest

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questions and the deepest problems of

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man because the deepest problems of man

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is that man has forgotten God and

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Hezekiah brings us back into the

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remembrance of God just a little while

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we're going to talk about the prodigal

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son how he REM he remembered the father

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he had a

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metanoia a change of

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vision the word

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metanoia in English repentance but the

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word repentance has so much bag

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religious baggage I love the the Greek

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word metanoia it has to do with the

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change of one's noetic faculty as news

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he was looking in One Direction and then

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he remembered a higher way

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of seeing things and he had a a change a

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metanoia turning around of his noetic

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faculty of his vision and he began to

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see on a higher

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way and he began to know that God is the

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Lord and in the story of the prodigal

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son that his father

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is is a loving father and so uh there

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was a a change he he he came to the end

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of himself all the Frantic frenzy of

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trying to fix this world by our own

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knowledge the knowledge of the tree of

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Good and Evil uh the knowledge that's

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not able to save uh the knowledge that

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St Paul says is actually uh it's the

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same as the law

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um the laws God's accommodation to our

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wanting to live apart from God to live

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by just rules and regulations and so

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forth on a rational level which is the

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way most religions operate on a law base

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we're called to live by grace and to

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live in a dance with the almighty God

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and to know him personally and to share

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through Jesus Christ the God man his the

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life of the uncreated god to know

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him and we know him

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through quieting our hearts and our

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minds from lots of noise we say in in

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the Greek we use the word log is me the

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log is me the little thoughts that race

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around our our heads the to-do list the

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anxieties the uh the head monkeys the

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Mind weasels the things that just uh

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capture our attention day and night if

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you are spending time uh on the internet

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and looking at uh news constantly and

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different uh podcasts on commentaries on

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what's going on in the world you're

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going to be consumed with head weasels

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and so Orthodox

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Christianity has a tried and and tested

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method of

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coming into a place of more Stillness

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and in we've used the Jesus prayer where

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we it's not a technique and it's not a m

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like an Eastern religion it's it's

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simply the shortest prayer that calls

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out the name of the Lord Lord Jesus

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Christ Son of God have mercy on

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me and sometimes I add and our whole

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world have mercy on me The Sinner have

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mercy on me and our dear broken

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world it is a

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simple Cry of the

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heart that has faith and Contrition at

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the same time that knows the posal joy

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of Christ's resurrection and also bows

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down in the dust as job did after he saw

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God face to face job

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said I Used to Know You by the hearing

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of the word by the law but now I've come

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to know you face to face and I prostrate

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in the dirt in the ashes in the

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dust this prayer of the

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heart both calls us into the

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resurrection into the sure and certain

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knowledge of the indestructible life of

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Jesus

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Christ the

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theanthropos it calls us up into heaven

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and it also returns us to the place of

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Contrition the remembrance that we lived

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in the pig's pen like the prodigal

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son and that we need to remember the

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father day and night to love his only

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begotten son Jesus Christ to be filled

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with the Holy good and lifegiving spirit

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to yearn for that with all our hearts

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this is the communal way of finding the

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peace of God which passes all human

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understanding his peace he gives to us

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not as the world gives but it is a gift

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from above and so these things hezekia

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Stillness the prayer of the heart and

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the communion with God through prayer uh

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this is at the heart of

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Orthodoxy it's the path to the kingdom

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of heaven