[Abba Bessarion] “A brother who sinned was put out of the church by the priest. Abba Bessarion got up and went out with him saying, ‘I too am a sinner.’”

[Abba Anthony] “Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we win our brother, we win God. If we cause our brother to stumble, we have sinned against Christ.”

[Abba Dorotheos of Gaza] “Before anything else we need humility: a being ready to listen whenever a word is spoken to us, and to say, ‘ I submit’, because through humility every device of the enemy, every kind of obstacle, is destroyed.”

[Mar Isaac the Syrian]: “Rebuke no one, not even those who live wickedly.”

Though not fashionable, this tact leads to restorative justice and to the rekindling of community in environments, and under conditions, that most would find hard to believe. I have personally witnessed such transformation on Death Row and in maximum security prisons, in the Deep South, and in the rural mountain villages of Eastern Congo, where I shall return to in a fortnight.

Proclamations are proclamations. Praxis is a completely matter.

Kenōsis seems to me to be a critical component in the evaluation of arrogance.

In honor of the consistency of those who walk this walk, with the marginalized, the oppressed, the abandoned, in particular, the community of brave, creative Trappist monks at Notre-Dame de Mokoto, I offer these gentle words from Dom Bernardo Oilvera, OSCO: “If you want to know and reach Christ, you will arrive sooner by following him than reading about him.”

First I need to tell you about myself, I am living in South Africa, I am in my fifties and I am definitely not interested in sky-fi films, pc games and such.I have never been exposed to Gibraltar or the lost city of Atlantis before.

I dreamt that I told my school teacher I wanted to see the Rock of Gibraltar. So I went to the beach at the rock of Gibraltar and suddenly a huge amount of water rose into the air and an ancient sea city appeared from the sea. I was then transported to this acropolis, there were temples, buildings and corridors that were all overgrown with sea mollusc and such. I then saw 5 statues on each corner of the outer buildings of the island that were rather huge.

The one side of the island appeared to be white, like maybe certain rock formations or snow? The other side were overgrown with green bushes.

The reason why I am writing to you is that I heard the words “73km’” clearly

I asked myself, “Is this the ancient sea city of Atlantis?” If it is, is it 73km away from Gibraltar, in Donana, or in the ocean? The strangest of it all is that on Sunday afternoon after I had the dream I saw the Nat Geo broadcast on tv for the first time where you spoke about the city and it’s close proximity to Gibraltar. It was strange and uncanny to me.

Annalie Bronn