I stand before the gates of your Temple, and yet I do not refrain - TopicsExpress



          

I stand before the gates of your Temple, and yet I do not refrain from evil thoughts. But, O Christ my God, who justified the tax-collector, and had mercy on the woman of Canaan, and opened the gates of Paradise to the thief; open to me your compassionate love for humankind, and receive me as I approach and touch you . . For the one embraced your feet and received the forgiveness of sins, and the other touched the hem of your garment and was healed. --Syrian monk St. John of Damascus (676-749) as cited in Eamon Duffy, ed., The Heart of Pilgrimage (2014).
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:58:28 +0000

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