Humility, Humility, Humility—This is the Name of God

a post-script homily

Ivan Kramskoy Christ in the Wilderness 1872

Given the texts for the day, I have to talk about spiritual warfare.

I will begin with a story told by Saint Sophrony. It is the story of his teacher, Saint Silouan the Athonite (who died in 1938). These are the book’s opening lines:

There lived a man in the world, a man of godly desires. His name was Simeon. …