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Under the Sign of Eternity

The deepest thread running through these pages is faith — not as a refuge from the world, but as the only key in which the rest can be read. Here are the pages in which I stopped amid the din of the city and looked upward.

You will find lectionary readings and feast days, old carols and prayers, longer theological studies — on the continuity between Judaism and Christianity, on the Presentation of the Lord, on “the Ancient of Days” — but also short confessions, written at night, when there was nothing left to do but pray.

I have made sure that nothing political entered this section. A text full of churchly words that speaks about political parties is not a spiritual text: it is a pamphlet dressed in vestments. Those belong elsewhere.

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Every subject has its own page. Open the rows below.

Old carols, words spoken at the feast, and studies on the foretelling and the fullness of time of the Nativity.

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From Holy Week and the Lamentations to the news that is not a greeting but a statement of fact: Christ is risen!

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The beginning of the Great Fast, the prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian, the evening rule, and the purpose of self-restraint.

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The feasts of the saints and portraits of the confessors who were fathers to me — among them Father Ilie Georgescu.

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The Church seen from the street: fortress walls, patriarchs, priests, cathedrals, and the attempts of power to buy their silence.

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Meditations on faith, death, suffering and the meaning of the world — written without a pulpit and without the pretensions of a theologian.

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