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Dear All,

It occurs to me that, in the western world, the devil realised that persecution was counter-productive to his aims, and that the thorns of mass materialism were a far better way of choking any seeds of faith and driving people from God. With mass materialism comes the virtual extinguishing of nostalgia for God and He is forgotten. Only a bat's squeak of an echo of remembrance of God remains, if that. How can we hope to combat this ignorance?

There is the well-known (hereabouts, anyway) story that at Tiptree, the village near to Tolleshunt Knights where the monastery founded by Archimandrite Sophrony is located, the vicar was explaining the Holy Trinity to his flock. He finished by saying, 'if you want to know any more, ask the hairy people at Tolleshunt Knights.' One lady then asked, 'do they believe in the Holy Trinity, then?' The vicar retorted, 'believe in it? They invented it!'