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A Homily for the Feast of the Transfiguration based on the Matins Gospel (Luke 9:28-36)

Glory to Jesus Christ! It is a blessed time to gather for Matins and celebrate this wonderful feast of the … More

Byzantine Catholic, Catholic, Christ, Eastern Catholic, Mysticism, Orthodox, Transfiguration

A Reflection on the Dormition of the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary

Glory to Jesus Christ! It is good to be here to celebrate this most special feast. This feast of the … More

Byzantine Catholic, Catholic, Dormition, Eastern Catholic, Icons, Incarnation, Liturgy, Mysticism, Orthodox, Scripture, Theotokos, Tradition

The Theology of the Body Broken in Practice: The Great Schism (part 1 of 2)

In addition to ending his Papal addresses on the Theology of the Body with what I would consider a request … More

East, Mysticism, schism, theology of the body broken, West

Notes From a Retreat IIIB-He is Everywhere Present

What is ecstasy, if it is not an experience? Ecstasy is to stand outside of every experience, while at the … More

Ecstasy, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Icons, Incarnation, Incense, Light, Mystery, Mysticism, Retreat

Notes From a Retreat IIIA-let there “be” light?

In the thinking of Parmenides (and modern philosophers such as Berkeley), to be is the same thing as to be … More

Darkness, Hierarchy, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Icons, Incarnation, Incense, Light, Mystery, Mysticism, Retreat

Notes From a Retreat-IIB

{More notes taken from my retreat dedicated to Dionysius the Areopagite and his theme of Luminous Darkness, as given in … More

Darkness, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Icons, Incarnation, Light, Mystery, Mysticism, Retreat

Notes From a Retreat-IIA

{More notes taken from my retreat dedicated to Dionysius the Areopagite and his theme of Luminous Darkness, as given in … More

Darkness, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Icons, Light, Mystery, Mysticism, Retreat

Notes From a Retreat-IB

How are we initiated into mystery? The initiation is being born. This is not an initiation that is visionary, gnostic, … More

Darkness, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Icons, Light, Mystery, Mysticism, Retreat

Notes From a Retreat-I

Luminous Darkness Hierarchy is about sharing, manifesting the communion of the saints. Neoplatonist intro-Neoplatonism is more Platonic than some modification … More

Dionysius, Holy Resurrection Monastery, Mysticism, Retreat

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