DAILY CONTEMPLATION

March 26, 2026 ~ Paremhotep 17, 1742

For there is no fellowship whatever between the words of the saints and the fancies of human invention;
for the saints are the ministers of the truth, preaching the kingdom of heaven,
but those who are [going] in the opposite direction have nothing better than to eat,
and think their end is that they shall cease to be, and they say,
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” (Is 22:13).
Therefore blessed Luke reproves the inventions of men, and hands down the narrations of the saints,
saying in the beginning of the Gospel, “Since many have presumed to write narrations of those events
of which we are assured, as those who from the beginning were witnesses and ministers of the Word
have delivered to us; it has seemed good to me also, who have adhered to them all from the first,
to write correctly in order to you, O excellent Theophilus,
that you may know the truth concerning the things in which you have been instructed” (Lk 1:1-4).
For as each of the saints has received, they impart without alteration,
for the confirmation of the doctrine of the mysteries.
St. Athanasius