⁕ I love to pray in God’s temple, especially within the holy altar, before the Holy Table or the Prothesis, for by God’s grace I became wonderfully changed in the temple. During the prayer of repentance and devotion the thorns, the bonds of the passions, fall from my soul, and I feel so light; all the spell, all the enticement of the passions vanish, and I seem to die to the world, and the world, with all its blessings, dies for me, I live in God and for God, for God alone.
 

 
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