"I am not a Jacob wrestling with God, but a Job lying on his dung-hill. I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action. The book, the cell, the presence at the altar and at lengthy church ceremonies, and above all the solitude and withdrawal from the world -- this is the atmosphere which suits me; it is there that I feel like a fish in the water. I cannot lead an active and contemplative life at the same time. You know how much I love the Jesuits, but their ideal (to unite contemplation with action) is not within my means."
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Fr. Paul Mailleux, "Exarch Leonid Feodorov," page 181. — In a letter to Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky.
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Leonid Feodorov
Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Russian: Леонидъ Ивановичъ Фёдоровъ) (1879–1935) was a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.
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