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St. Symeon the New Theologian was abbot of the monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople at the turn of the eleventh century. He was also perhaps the most remarkable and certainly the most forceful advocate of the mystical experience of God in the history of the Byzantine Church. Though they were on occasion suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities wary of his fierce enthusiasm, as well as his...

It is one thing to speak humbly, another to think humbly, and humility is one thing while the blossom of humility is another, and yet another the latter’s fruit and the beauty of that fruit, and still another the energies which come out from the last. Of these, some are proper to us, and some are not. It is our part to conceive, think, reason, say, and do everything which brings us toward humility. Holy humility, though, and the rest of its characteristics, its charismata together with its energies,
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