Listen My Son. Dwight Longenecker

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СКАЧАТЬ on a brooding anger which grows from false expectations. The only way to cure the demon of anger is to confront it head on, to bring it out into the open and get things right, and the only one who can put it right is God.

      Psychologists tell us fear lies at the root of anger. At the very foundation of our personalities we are angry because we are frightened. This is the inchoate fear of the child being left alone in the dark, cut off from love. The only remedy for this underlying fear is that deep unconditional perfect love (1 John 4.18) which can only be found in God himself. So Benedict ends this section on inner problems by advising us to ‘rest one's hope in God’, for in him alone will we find the healing love which drives out anger and fear.

      January 20

      May 21

      September 20

      CHAPTER IV

      THE TOOLS OF GOOD

      WORKS (C)

       To fear the Day of Judgement

       To dread hell

       To yearn for eternal life with all possible spiritual desire

       To keep death daily before one's eyes

       At every moment to keep watch over the actions of one's life

       In every place to know that God most surely beholds one

       To dash the evil thoughts that invade one's heart immediately upon Christ, as upon a rock, and to reveal them to one's spiritual father

       To guard one's mouth against evil and vicious speech

       Not to love much talking

       Not to utter words that are foolish and provoke laughter

       Not to love much or unrestrained laughter

       To listen willingly to devout reading

       To fall often to prayer

       In our daily prayer to God to confess with tears and groans the wrong-doing in our past life

       To amend these wrong ways in the future

       To reject carnal desires

       To hate one's own will

       To obey the Abbot's commands in everything, even though he himself (which God forbid) acts otherwise, remembering always that command of the Lord's, ‘Do what they tell you, but do not do the things that they do’

       To be unwilling to be called holy before one is so, but to be holy first so that it may be truly said of one

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