As you see, He offers you a Shepherd

fool for Christ 27 Apr 2023 14:10:28 GMT
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"As you see, He offers you a Shepherd; for this is what your Good Shepherd, 
who lays down his life for his sheep, is hoping and praying for, and he 
asks from you his subjects; and he gives you himself double instead of 
single, and makes the staff of his old age a staff for your spirit. And he 
adds to the inanimate temple a living one; to that exceedingly beautiful 
and heavenly shrine, this poor and small one, yet to him of great value, 
and built too with much sweat and many labours. Would that I could say it 
is worthy of his labours. And he places at your disposal all that belongs 
to him (O great generosity!- or it would be truer to say, O fatherly love!) 
his hoar hairs, his youth, the temple, the high priest, the testator, the 
heir, the discourses which you were longing for; and of these not such as 
are vain and poured out into the air, and which reach no further than the 
outward ear; but those which the Spirit writes and engraves on tables of 
stone, or of flesh, not merely superficially graven, nor easily to be 
rubbed off, but marked very deep, not with ink, but with grace."

St. Gregory the Theologian, On the Resurrection.

"What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit 
him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels. You have crowned 
him with glory and honor."  Psalm 8:4-5

Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.