Stillness in the West

Stillness in the West

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Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age.

"Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.”
--St. Seraphim of Sarov.

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About Jack Leahy

Seeking silence, solitude, and simplicity in community.

Waiting for a new, and altogether different, St. Anthony. We have entered a new desert in a New Dark Age.