Category: Blog
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I am my Beloved’s
DIGGING IN my journal, I found this poem from mid-2000. It was not what I was looking for. In fact, I was horrified at all the other crap I found. But in the middle was this reminder that, as my Mom said, “The Lord never let go of your hand, did he?” Even deep in…
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Localist Milkshake
OK. OK. OK. I know – what we think of as hot here in SF is not hot anywhere else. But it was 22C today. The fact that it’s 20 (that’s 68F…) at 7PM is just hot for July. We can sometimes expect mid 60s here, but only in the midday. I’ve seen it hit…
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Patristic Prooftexts
THE COVER IMAGE is one of my favourite books of all times, The Roots of Christian Mysticism by Fr Olivier Clement. I have owned three copies of it, I think. Maybe four. Until recently, I also had my original one: the cover was broken and almost every page was marked up. The writer, an Orthodox…
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Magnitudes of Infinity
STRUGGLING WITH QUESTIONS OF Ecclesiology as I write my final paper, it seems that all things within the Theological Science are interwoven: can you discuss the Church without discussing the Holy Mysteries or the Mysteries without the Trinity, or the Trinity without the Saints, or the Saints without the Church or the Church without Prayer…
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Tolkien’s Unintentional Allegory
JR.R. TOLKIEN REALLY DISLIKED allegory (really disliked may be too weak), “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.” It is possible he would totally reject this essay. I want to own that. But I think we can read…
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Sunday #mood
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Opening the Mind. Paris – 1240 AD
τότε διήνοιξεν αὐτῶν τὸν νοῦν τοῦ συνιέναι τὰς γραφάς.Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures…And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:45,27 THERE’S THIS CURIOUS – and shameful – event that happens in the reign of King St Louis…
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Why is there Something?
THE PROJECT was a conversation/presentation for our local chapter of the Dominican lay fraternity on Chapter 12 of The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by Fr W. Norris Clarke, SJ. The chapter was on Efficient Cause, which is one of the four causes of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy. Here follow the notes…
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You may be cool
But are you Holy Passion Bearer Princess Anastasia talking a selfie cool? #teenagers
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A Month of Typica
OUR Byzantine Catholic Parish has one priest assigned plus three others who help out from time to time. By an untimely coincidence of schedules, we are in the midst of 3 weeks without a priest to serve the Divine Liturgy. This week, in fact, we had no Deacon as well. There’s a conference in Vienna.…
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For the Beauty
THE LAST Weekend was #SpringinSF at it’s finest: not too hot, yet warm and sunny with a slight breeze. It was warm enough not to require a jacket until nearly 9 and that just meant that nighttime was cool enough to sleep! Saturday I was out and about long enough to “get some color” on…
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In Downers, Hope
BY WAY Of method: selected verses from Psalm 88 (BCP ’79 translation – a personal fave) interspersed with the refrain from Psalm 136. Language was ironed out to be in the third person to match the refrain. Not all the verses of Ps 88 are used, just the ones that match my current #mood. The…
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Noms
Having a wee fry and a souffle. Cuz keto.
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Shelikee Bookey
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I Don’t Want To Think
AN EMERGING PATTERN seems to indicate that more-common sins are ways to cope or deal with situations: like alcohol is used to numb the brain, so are other things. If “I don’t want to think about this just now” there are distractions with which to numb the pain. Those brain-numbing pain solutions are sins. Yes,…
Orthoparadoxy 