O mystery exalted beyond every word and beyond silence, who became human in order to renew us by means of your voluntary union with the flesh, reveal to me the path by which I may be raised up to your mysteries, traveling along a course that is clear and tranquil, free from the illusions of this world. Gather may mind into the silence of prayer, so that wandering thoughts may be silenced within me during that luminous converse of supplication and mystery-filled wonder.
Whenever people perceive the love of God and respond to it in some measure, they live eternity. Indeed, in a certain way whenever they live in love between themselves, they live eternity. This understanding of time as always moving towards eternity helps us to see how it is that we are always turning towards the future, always looking further towards what we have not yet discovered and that we have never fully arrived in this life. Time manifests the fact that that we do not rest and cannot rest in what we are, but are always turned towards that state in which we shall be able to rest wholly in God. Time shows us that we are suspended over the abyss of nothingness. That is why we are always searching for a fuller understanding of what we are and of what is around us. We cannot fully understand the meaning of things in this life in time. The present moment is always a moment which is extended in expectation towards the future. It isn't only a present moment.
Through thee the Spirit poured forth streams of teaching for the Church; thou didst expound God the Word's self-emptying, and shine forth in thy struggles as a true Confessor of the Faith; Holy Father Maximos, pray to Christ our God to grant us His great mercy!
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