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Glory to Jesus Christ!  This week's quotes on Gems From the Treasury came from Book III of St. Clement of Alexandria's Stromateis ( Miscellanies ). 1/14/13: "We are not to live amorally. We are, so far as possible, to purify ourselves from passions and lusts, and take care of our soul."--III.42 (5) 1/15/13: "It is impossible for those who are still under the direction of their passions to receive true knowledge of God."--III.43 (1) 1/16/13: "Ignorance of God is displayed by one's living."--III.43 (1) 1/17/13: "The tree is known by its fruits, not by its flowers...True knowledge is discerned from the fruits of behavior, not from the flower of theory."--III.44 (2) 1/18/13: "Better to be healthy than to be ill and talk about health. Better for there to be light than to be chattering about light."--III.57 (4) Next week's quotes are from the Enzira Sebhat , or Harp of Glory , described as "An Alphabetical H...

Christ is baptized!  This week's quotes on Gems From the Treasury come from the Proslogion ( Proslogium ) of St. Anselm of Canterbury. 1/7/13: "I will long after Thee in seeking Thee, I will find Thee by loving Thee, I will love Thee in finding Thee."-- Proslogion I 1/8/13: "[My soul] is both darkened in itself, and dazzled by Thee...it is both obscured by its own insignificance, and overwhelmed by Thy infinity."-- Proslogion IV 1/9/13: "If there are many great delights in delectable things, what and how great is the delight in Him Who has made these delectable things."-- Proslogion XXIV 1/10/13: "Love the one good in which are all goods, and it sufficeth....There, there is whatever ye love, whatever ye desire."-- Proslogion XXV 1/11/13: "I pray, O God, to know thee, to love thee, that I may rejoice in thee...may I at least advance...until that joy shall come to the full."-- Proslogion XXVI Next week's quotes a...

Christ is baptized! This week's quotes on Gems From the Treasury come from different Byzantine liturgical hymns during this Nativity season. 12/31/12: "Your Nativity, O Christ our God, has shed the light of knowledge upon the world....O Lord, glory to You!"--Troparion of the Nativity (December 25) 1/1/13: "You fulfilled the Law by accepting to be circumcised in the flesh...Glory to Your goodness, O Word!...Glory to Your ineffable condescension!"--Troparion of the Circumcision (January 1) 1/2/13: "The Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent in Essence...For to us is born a New Child, who is God from all eternity."--Kontakion of the Nativity (December 25) 1/3/13: "[David, Joseph, and James] offer their hymns of praise, for the crown of glory of their relationship with Christ fills them with joy."--Kontakion of the Sunday after the Nativity (December 26-31) 1/4/13: "Make ready, Zebulon, and prepare Nephtali!  And you, Jordan River, st...