Comments | sufitom: Now lettest thou thy servant....Nunc dimittis servum tuum domine,

sufitom

Now lettest thou thy servant....Nunc dimittis servum tuum domine,

May 26, 2007 12:53

[edit: May 27, 2007...well, looking over this entry in 20/20 hindsight I wonder if I could use a little cheese with this whine. When I went to Liturgy this morning I realized why I was there and not in the Protestant church I had been going to for a number of years...the Eucharist. Duh! What a short memory I have. The Protestant minister asked me ( Read more... )

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la_tisana May 26 2007, 20:14:50 UTC

I like very much this song/prayer of St Simeon...thank you for posting it in English - very beautiful translation! now I see that me too, I almost always sang and heard it in a minor key...

tomorrow is Pentecoste, and the day after tomorrow - St Spirit's day. on this day a year ago (although it was 12 June the last year) we were married...:-)

sufitom May 26 2007, 20:26:04 UTC

so is it happy anniversary now or June 12th?

Anyway, Happy Anniversary now in case I miss it on the 12th of June.
Many Years!

I liked your haiku with the Russian coin found while shopping.
Did it remind you of being in two worlds at the same time?

la_tisana May 27 2007, 08:09:20 UTC

well, I think it's TWO anniversary. one - the St Spirit's Day and another - 12 June :-))) thanx!
and OH! I live at least in 10 different worlds! :-)))

esme_anastasia May 28 2007, 02:43:24 UTC

Whennnnnn is your Chrismation?!

asakiyume May 30 2007, 21:14:15 UTC

A friend of mine who had a--what do we want to call it--direct experience of God, I guess, said to me that the love that God feels for us is so overwhelming and constant, that it's impossible for us to believe our good luck. How can God love us that much? When we can't even love that much? But God does. When she had this experience, she was aware of God's love coming from everything, every place she set her eyes on, and not just some generalized, pantheistic love, but absolutely intense and personal ( ... )