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\u2014Activities<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Gift Giving<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Scripture<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Prayer<\/a><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0Literature<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 Reflection <\/a>\u00a0 Carols<\/a><\/span>\u2014<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Bodoni Moda|700|||||||” text_text_color=”#F26552″ text_font_size=”46px” header_font=”Bodoni Moda||||||||” text_font_size_tablet=”46px” text_font_size_phone=”37px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”1.1em” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]

The Ninth Day of Christmas<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/12tide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Basil-and-Gregory.jpeg” title_text=”Basil and Gregory” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_id=”reflection” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_padding=”||0px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”15px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” locked=”off” inline_fonts=”Bellefair” global_colors_info=”{}”]

The Ninth Day of Christmas:\u00a0Feast of St. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The fourth-century bishops, ascetics, monks, scholars and rhetoricians Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzen were best friends who worked together to help pioneer both monastic communities and the doctrine of the Trinity (especially as it relates to the Holy Spirit being God).\u00a0 Rather than living by themselves (which seemed a more spiritual route at the time to some), they elected to live in community with other likeminded Christians in Cappadocia.\u00a0 It is, to me, no surprise that two people dedicated to community should help develop the doctrine of the Trinity.\u00a0 Part of the reason the Church is called to live\u00a0together\u00a0is to manifest the nature of the Godhead itself, in which Father, Son, and Holy Ghost love one another and glorify and serve each other.\u00a0 We will never totally understand this mystery at the very heart of God, but if we obey him and serve one another, we can bring it to bear on the world and allow it to transform (often\u00a0very\u00a0slowly) our broken human relationships into images of the Divine Nature.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than write a full reflection for today, I’ve taken the following translated excerpt of St. Gregory’s writings from: <\/em>Crossroads Initiative<\/a>.<\/span>
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“Basil\u00a0and I were both in\u00a0Athens. We had come, like streams of a river, from the same source in our native land, had separated from each other in pursuit of learning, and were now united again as if by plan, for God so arranged it.I was not alone at that time in my regard for my friend, the great Basil. I knew his irreproachable conduct, and the maturity and wisdom of his conversation. I sought to persuade others, to whom he was less well known, to have the same regard for him. Many fell immediately under his spell, for they had already heard of him by reputation and hearsay.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was the outcome? Almost alone of those who had come to\u00a0Athens\u00a0to study he was exempted from the customary ceremonies of initiation for he was held in higher honor than his status as a first-year student seemed to warrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such was the prelude to our friendship, the kindling of that flame that was to bind us together. In this way we began to feel affection for each other. When, in the course of time, we acknowledged our friendship and recognized that our ambition was a life of true wisdom, we became everything to each other: we shared the same lodging, the same table, the same desires the same goal. Our love for each other grew daily warmer and deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same hope inspired us: the pursuit of learning. This is an ambition especially subject to envy. Yet between us there was no envy. On the contrary, we made capital out of our rivalry. Our rivalry consisted, not in seeking the first place for oneself but in yielding it to the other, for we each looked on the other\u2019s success as his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

We seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit. Though we cannot believe those who claim that everything is contained in everything, yet you must believe that in our case each of us was in the other and with the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.”<\/span><\/h4>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_margin=”-14px|||||” custom_padding=”||57px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”15px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]

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Our single object and ambition was virtue, and a life of hope in the blessings that are to come; we wanted to withdraw from this world before we departed from it. With this end in view we ordered our lives and all our actions. We followed the guidance of God\u2019s law and spurred each other on to virtue. If it is not too boastful to say, we found in each other a standard and rule for discerning right from wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Note from website author: This selection, an excerpt from a sermon by Saint Gregory Nazianzus (Oratio 43, in laudem Basilii Magni, 15. 16-17, 19-21; PG 36, 514-423).\u00a0 It is used in the Roman Office of Readings for January 2, the feast of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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