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United with One Another, United with God: One Love
Posted by Wallace+
In August, I began a Word from Grace Street by quoting one of the desert mothers, Amma Syncletica. The words of another eastern Christian ascetic, influenced by the desert fathers, caught my attention yesterday. Dorotheus of Gaza said, beautifully:
Each one according to his means should take care to be at one with everyone else, for the more one is united to his neighbor, the more he is united with God.
Which is exactly what is meant, in the Outline of the Faith (Book of Common Prayer, 855), when the mission of the Church is given: "to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ."
Finally, it's all about a loving unity, one loving unity: us and God, one Love.
Amen, amen.
Tags: desert fathers, desert mothers, early christianity, eastern orthodox
