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Saint Maximus the Confessor lived as a prominent citizen, highly ranked in Constantinople from 580 to 662 A.D. He joined the imperial administration from an early age, became a monk at the Monastery of Chrysoupolis and returned to Constantinople to avoid the Persians. As a theologian he taught against those who sought to compromise the Faith for power and as an instructor in spiritual life, he detailed the practical guidance in how to live as Christians. He taught that Jesus Christ was the incarnate Son of God, divine and human, natural and spiritual. Saint Maximus was persecuted by imperial law and put on trial where he was convicted having his tongue and right hand cut off and sent into exile so he could no longer defend the Christian Faith. His contribution to the Christian Faith is endless, existing today in his writings such as Philokalia. Saint Maximus is commemorated on Aug 13th & Jan 21st
“Many people have said much about love, but only in seeking it among Christ’s disciples will you find it, for only they have the true love, the teacher of love, of whom it is written, ‘If I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge but do not have love, it profits me nothing.’ Therefore, the one who possesses love possesses God Himself, since ‘God is love.’ To Him be glory forever. Amen. 400 Chapters on love, 4.100
“To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil – such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.” – Saint Maximus.
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