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Book: Death by Envy
Yes, this book has nothing to do with bread
baking, but it is nonetheless interesting. Envy is one of the least
understood of sins, yet it was a major theme of both the Old and New
Testaments, along with the writings of the early Church Fathers. |
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"For this is the symbolic
significance of unleavened bread, that you do not commit the old deeds of
wicked leaven. But you have understood all things in a carnal sense, and you
suppose it to be piety if you do such things, while your souls are filled
with deceit, and, in short, with every wickedness. Accordingly, also, after
the seven days of eating unleavened bread, God commanded them to mingle new
leaven ,
that is, the performance of other works, and not the imitation of the old and
evil works." |
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"Lay aside, therefore, the
evil, the old, the sour leaven, and be |
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"The new law requires you
to keep perpetual |
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"And that the Savior
received first-fruits of those whom He was to save, Paul |
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"The apostles ordained,
that 'we should not judge any one in respect to meat or drink, or in regard
to a feast day, or the new moons, or the sabbaths.'
Whence then these contentions? whence these schisms?
We keep the feast, but in the leaven of malice and wickedness, cutting in
pieces the |
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"Keep your nights of
watching in the middle of the days of unleavened bread. And when the Jews are
feasting, |
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"Hear at least what Christ
saith to his disciples, 'The Kingdom of heaven is
like unto a woman who took leaven and hid it in three measures of meal.' So
that the righteous have the power of leaven, in order that they may transfer
the wicked to their own manner of conduct. But the righteous are few, for the
leaven is small. But the smallness in no way injures the lump, but that
little quantity converts the whole of the meal to itself by means of the
power inherent in it. So accordingly the power also of the righteous has its
force not in the magnitude of their number, but in the grace of the Spirit.
There were twelve Apostles. Dost thou see how little is the
leaven? The whole world was in unbelief. Dost thou see how great
is the lump? But those twelve turned the whole world
to themselves. The leaven and the lump had the same nature but not the same
manner of conduct. On this account he left the wicked in the midst of the
good, that since they are of the same nature as the righteous they may also
become of the same purpose.." |
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"And this is the reason
why He called you leaven: for leaven also does not leaven itself, but, little
though it is, it affects the whole lump however big it may be. So also do ye: although ye are few in number, yet be ye many and
powerful in faith, and in zeal towards God. As then the leaven is not weak on
account of its littleness, but prevails |
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"As this
piece of bread was scattered over the hills and then brought together and made
one, so let Thy Church be brought together from the ends of the earth into
Thy Kingdom. For Thine is
the Glory and the Power through Jesus Christ forever." |
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"...And he
was in the midst, not as burning flesh, but as bread baking..." |
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"Let me be
fodder for wild beasts, that is how I can get to God. I am God's wheat and am
being ground in the teeth of wild beasts to make a pure loaf for Christ...I
shall coax them to eat me up at once and not hold off..." |
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"...What
many bakers don't realize is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of
bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost...is
this method." |
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"Bread may not always
nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our
joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to
recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic
joy." |
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"To eat bread is one
thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite
another." |
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"Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so
cheap!" |
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"Eating the bitter bread
of banishment." |
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"Deliberation. The act of
examining one’s bread to determine which side it is
buttered on." |
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"Two things only the
people anxiously desire, bread and circuses." |
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"Science is analytical,
descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread
alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all
that is purely scientific." |
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Glory be to Jesus Christ our Lord and our God!
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Dedicated toLa Madonna di MontevergineMost Holy Mother, Pray to God for us! |
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