tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post4597143234817074840..comments2024-01-31T12:34:57.206-08:00Comments on Full of Grace and Truth: St. Symeon the StyliteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post-7744688425951669602016-06-15T18:45:39.409-07:002016-06-15T18:45:39.409-07:00By the grace of God+ He's our hero and saint!By the grace of God+ He's our hero and saint! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05009342154651045144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post-37408505777865735762016-06-15T18:45:31.293-07:002016-06-15T18:45:31.293-07:00By the grace of God+ He's our hero and saint!By the grace of God+ He's our hero and saint! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05009342154651045144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post-83047363462444845982015-10-29T04:22:31.318-07:002015-10-29T04:22:31.318-07:00Interesting. It must have taken a lot of energy t...Interesting. It must have taken a lot of energy to stay on that pole! Thanks for the post:)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16989086559000234393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post-80953782757866485072009-12-04T07:03:29.754-08:002009-12-04T07:03:29.754-08:00First of all, as I've mentioned, I'm not a...First of all, as I've mentioned, I'm not a priest. I'm a lay person, and for the most part I only post and translate the lives of the Saints and the writings of the Fathers. So these are mostly the actions and words of the Holy Fathers, not me.<br /><br />Second, specifically St. Symeon was 18 years old when he left to become a monk. Thus he would even be considered an adult by today's standards. In today's culture where many consider it normal and healthy for young adults to experiment with smoking, drugs, sex, destructive activities, where our young people can leave for war, why is considered folly to suffer for virtue, for Truth, for Life, for Christ?<br /><br />Neither I nor the Fathers of the Church imply that everyone should go out and live on a pillar. We each can do what is in our strength and with the blessings of our Spiritual Fathers for the love of Christ, Who loved us and gave Himself for us. (Gal. 2:20)<br /><br />"For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" (St. Paul the Apostle in 1st Corinthians 1:22-24)Agioi_Anargyroihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14625211991052711513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990141932888502187.post-26858370988930061422009-12-01T13:18:01.906-08:002009-12-01T13:18:01.906-08:00Are you also going to make homeless and assylum lu...Are you also going to make homeless and assylum lunatics saints? The freak spent decades on top of a pole! Any priest who condones such behavior is endangering the sanity of minors! No wonder you refuse to see the absence of the emperor's missing clothes and keep falling for tyanny.Lucky Archer - Λάκης Βελώτρηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02566128816737977880noreply@blogger.com