Poets & Saints

A Friend, the Most Near (Sergius Bulgakov) - Unseen Existences: Day 48

Poets & Saints

Show Notes

A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on Matthew 18:10, with a reading from Sergius Bulgakov's Jacob's Ladder. Day 48 of the Unseen Existences series.

Scripture Matthew 18:10 (NRSVUE) Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.

Refrain I am not alone. A friend is near.

Quote Sergius Bulgakov, from Jacob’s Ladder “At that time the voice of a companion sounded within: I was not alone but together with my own other I; it was my guardian angel. He told me that we had gone too far ahead and it was necessary to return.... I returned to life from death. And I knew all this time that I was not alone, that with me was a friend, the most near, tender and quiet.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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