Try to enter the narrow way...

Abba Poemen said: 'Teach your heart to follow what your tongue is saying to others.' He also said, 'Men try to appear excellent in preaching but they are less excellent in practising what they preach.'
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Monk...



Crucified.

I like this image very much. 
Posted by Terry Nelson at 12:03 AM
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5 comments:

  1. Very cool ... the demons must be the seven deadly sins. The only one I can recognize is "porneia" - lust. The others are hard to read - must be some late Byzantine script or some kind of early Cyrillic.

    Any Eastern rite Catholics out there who can read this stuff?

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  2. "I like this image very much."

    Me too.

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  3. Powerful image.

    One of my personal favorites is Schongauer's "Temptation of St. Anthony." He is shown ravaged by demons, but with a look of steely placidity on his face.

    http://genelempp.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/inner-demon-st-anthony.jpg?w=640

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  4. Have you been to Miss Christine's website, Laudum Gloriae?

    It is really, really good.

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