{"id":7829,"date":"2020-02-07T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:11:25","slug":"fr-seraphim-rose-on-immersing-ourselves-in-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7829","title":{"rendered":"Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Immersing Ourselves in Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe must be not just aware of what our Church teaches and does — we must be trying to saturate ourselves in it. St. Seraphim, in his spiritual instructions, says that the Christian must be “swimming in the law of the Lord” — and this doesn’t mean just making the Church a little part of one’s life; it means going deeper and doing more. Of course, we start a little at a time. If you have been going to church just on Sundays, you can begin to go to the Vigil on Saturday night, and to feast-day services. If you’ve been trying to keep the fast of Great Lent, you can begin to go to more of the very moving services of Lent — the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, the Praises of the Mother of God.\u00a0 And another very important thing: You should be reading spiritual books. St. John Chrysostom goes so far as to say that a Christian who doesn’t read spiritual books can’t be saved. Why? Because the world, whose spirit we absorb unconsciously many hours a day, is so strong that we will almost automatically follow its ways unless we are consciously filling our minds and hearts with Christian impressions. \u201c<\/p>\n

\u2018Orthodoxy in America\u2019<\/p>\n

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