“Time and again the fathers received fortastes of heavenly blessedness: spiritual consolations which gave them strength to continue their struggle, like blissful rest at the end of a day’s oil. When the hardships of life would amount to a point which seemed almost beyond endurance, and ineffable joy would suddenly be ushered in coming not from anything outside, but from within the daily life itself, from the divinely revealed a pattern of church services. Father Seraphim love the services because they represented an actual participation in the life of another dimension – – a dimension without the presence of which life on earth would truly be meaningless. To him the services were a stepping stone to eternity.”
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