06 — The Spiritual Teaching

The heart of Kosmas’s message, drawn from the Didaches: repentance and confession as the door of the Christian life, love of God and neighbour as its substance, the Cross of Christ at its center, and a special love for the poor that turned neighbour-love into concrete justice — a spirituality of conversion for the many, plain and demanding.

Tradition: Greek Orthodox (canonized 1961)

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repentance-and-love.md Repentance and confession as the beginning; love of God and neighbour as the whole substance; the plainness of the teaching; a spirituality for the many
the-cross-and-the-poor.md The Cross at the center and the teaching on the sign of the Cross; the love of the poor; against usury and injustice; the apostle of the poor

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