A journal of byzantine digressionS
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My Song is Love Unknown
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/HMart4wXsI0&source=uds My song is love unknown,My Saviour’s love to me;Love to the loveless shown,That they might lovely be.O who am I, that for my sakeMy Lord should take frail flesh and die? He came from His blest throneSalvation to bestow;But men made strange, and noneThe longed-for Christ would know:But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed,Who…
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The Holy Mystery
From the Church of the Frescoes, near Valle Crucis, NC On this day we commemorate the Institution of the Eucharist, the beginning of the on-going mystery of Christ in His Body, the Church. It all ties together now: the Body of Christ, present, feeding us who are Christ, active, serving Christ who is you, in…
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Housewarming Bleg…
So, I’m moving in May. Into my own place. For the first time since 2002. I need to ask for some help. Nothing is on the list that isn’t needed – except the light saber. But anyway… please click on my Amazon Housewarming Registry!
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Let us die with him
Singing Matins and Vespers for Holy Monday we offer this verse: As th Ge Lord was coming to his voluntary passion,he said to his Apostles on the road,‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem,and the Son of man will be betrayed,as it is written of him’. Come then, let us too, with minds made pure,journey…
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Daily Office 16 – 30 April
The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…
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Holy Week at Holy Trinity SF
Please join me at Holy Trinity Cathedral for some or all of Holy Week! Here is our Holy Week Schedule
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Daily Office 1 – 15 April AD 2014
The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…
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Ontology IV
I see conversations about human sexuality inside American Orthodoxy that are the same ones that happened in Anglicanism. It concerns me when we have conversations about sexuality without questioning our cultural assumptions about Ontology. In thinking about these things, I’ve published a new Essay called Ontology IV.
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Go read…
MYSTAGOGY: “Religious People Are Dangerous … God Protect Us From Them” Therefore let us take care of ourselves to understand that the Church is a hospital that heals us and helps us to love Christ, and the love of Christ is a flame that burns within our hearts.
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Evil Imaginations
So, I’m listening to “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana” on Freakonomics, a podcast from National Public Radio and I really needed to co to confession. Not in a little way, mind you, but a big way. The episode was all about Evil Imaginations. I’ve no idea what it is in Slavonic or Greek, in Russian it’s злые фантазии and…
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Daily Office 15-31 March AD 2014
The Daily Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer in the Rite of St Tikhon. The readings are as assigned by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, unofficially supplemented with other devotional material taken from the Breviary and the Psalter. Each MP/EP link will take you to a complete office, needing only the daily Psalter or, for…
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Great and Holy Internecine Incivility
Orthodoxy says she is the Church: her institutional boundaries are the visible boundaries of the Church. There maybe invisible boundaries – but that’s in God’s hands. If you want to see the Church, see Orthodoxy. That’s all there is. Recently all the heads of the Autocephalous Churches (except the Orthodox Church in America, which autocephaly…
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves.
I’m always amused by the way we craft our stories. The life of St Gregory in the earlier post says, He rebuked the presumption of John, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had taken to himself the title of Bishop of the Universal Church. I found that interesting: since this is 500 years before “The Great Schism”…
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The Life of Pope St Gregory the Great
Styled in the East, “the Dialogist” Tonight at Vespers (the First Vespers of the feast) was read, in the Rite of St Tikhon, the “Legend” or the Life of the Saint. In the Rite of St Gregory, a monastic rite, it will be read later tonight at Matins, for either as follows: Gregory the Great…
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The Heresy of Secularism
Father Alexander of blessed memory, says: What we have to understand first of all, is that the problem under discussion is complicated by something our well-intentioned “conservatives” do not comprehend, in spite of all their denouncing and condemning of secularism. It is the fact of the very real connection between secularism—its origin and its development—and…
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