Drawn to the Cross
"I am of opinion, brother, that you were more severe to your unlearned hearers than you ought to have been and did not at first, conformably to the apostolic rule, give them the milk of more easy doctrine, till being by degrees nourished with the word of God, they should be capable of greater perfection, and be able to practice God's sublimer precepts."
– St Aidan of Lindisfarne, as reported by St Bede the Venerable.
We see in these words the wisdom of the saintly missionary monk, St Aidan, and what the 'law of graduality' that a wise pastor applies to the care of souls.
This stained glass window is in St Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington DC.
Drawn to the Cross
"I am of opinion, brother, that you were more severe to your unlearned hearers than you ought to have been and did not at first, conformably to the apostolic rule, give them the milk of more easy doctrine, till being by degrees nourished with the word of God, they should be capable of greater perfection, and be able to practice God's sublimer precepts."
– St Aidan of Lindisfarne, as reported by St Bede the Venerable.
We see in these words the wisdom of the saintly missionary monk, St Aidan, and what the 'law of graduality' that a wise pastor applies to the care of souls.
This stained glass window is in St Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington DC.