Holy Fools

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I’ve been reading through this forum, and it appears that this is the perfect place to ask about Holy Fools.

What do you know? Books? Bible? Movies? Icons? Feast Days? Etc?

Thanks!
 
The only one that comes to mind is Simeon the Holy Fool. Feast day July 1.
 
TheDoors said:
Hey, I’ll ask. What are the holy fools?
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Forgive me for posting a long quotation, but I think this passage from 1st Corinthians is where the term comes from:
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
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“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
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Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not —to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
1 Corinthians 1:17 - 2:5
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To summarize: Wisdom (as the world defines it) is not necessary to become holy. In fact it can be a “stumbling block” if it prevents us from giving our whole selves to God with the innocence and passion of children.
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
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He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me."
Matthew 18:1 - 5
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