Becoming a Healing Presence
Feast of St Hypatius, Bishop of GangraAnno Domini 2020, March 31
Becoming a Healing Presence
by Albert S. Rossi:
“We are all longing to become something noble, something elevated, something beyond our earthbound selves,” Rossi reminds us. One way to realize this goal is to “love one’s neighbor as oneself,” but how? Rossi gently teaches us to show love to those around us in a concrete way. We reclaim our inner stillness and breathe the name of Jesus in prayer; we find the heart God placed within us as a “life-giving energy supply.” Using Scripture, the Fathers, and contemporary elders as guides, Rossi offers steps toward finding calm in the midst of bustle and distraction, which opens us in turn to listening to others. Whatever our career may be, we all answer the same calling: to do what Christ has placed us here to do for the sake of His Kingdom. That vocation takes different forms at different times – our task is to surrender, to become a conduit through which His healing fire reaches others. The keys to such a life are simplification, or “subtraction,’ as he calls it; the cultivation of joy and gratitude; gentleness of mind. The author, a psychologist and faculty member at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary, offers simple examples from his own experience, reassuring us that we, too, can serve as a healing presence, even a world of suffering and death. Nothing is beyond our reach, for we do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
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