St Maximos the Confessor: These fully endowed by the Spirit with spiritual knowledge...
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Lessons by our Holy Fathers
These fully endowed by the Spirit with spiritual knowledge and virtue are able, through preaching and instruction, to make the hearts of others receptive of true devotion and faith, withdrawing their disposition and capacity from its preoccupation with corruptible nature and directing it towards the actualization of supra-natural and incorruptible blessings.
It is therefore fitting that in this same text the breast of the victims offered in sacrifice to God - that is, the hearts of those who offer themselves to God - and the shoulder - that is, their life of ascetic practice - should be set aside for the priests.
St Maximos the Confessor
Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy,
and Virtue and Vice: Second Century
