Contemplating 2/2

Mar 9, 20221 min read

Spine-Chilling Mystery

How can this be? Pouring Your love into my heart? Filling my mind with Your knowledge? How can You want me before you in prayer? Such a...

Jan 4, 20221 min read

The Spiritually Dead

Cacophonous and Thunderous, O World of Mine Rending and Reaping with your Screeching and Shrieking, Tending to the Flocks of your Dead...

Jul 15, 20211 min read

This Life I Give to You

With the rising of the sun, You stretch my soul and breathe into my lungs. In the still heat of the noonday, You close my eyes and...

Jun 30, 20211 min read

Heal Me, O Silence

I try to understand How it is That You are So near to me? I want to know why? I want to know how? But why do I want to know? Is it so...

Jan 7, 20211 min read

Dawn of the Light of Knowledge

"Your birth, O Christ our God, dawned the light of knowledge upon the earth. For by Your birth those who adored stars were taught by a...

Jan 6, 20211 min read

Christ is Born!

"Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One! Angels with shepherds...

Dec 4, 20201 min read

This Woman is the Abode of Heaven

The Great Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos is the celebration of the presentation of Mary, the Mother of God, who was brought by...

Oct 25, 20201 min read

Homily: St. Symeon the New Theologian

In his homily for this "contemplative Sunday," Fr. Thomas speaks words of wisdom from the life and writings of a greatly revered...

Apr 4, 20203 min read

Descending Deep in the Heart

"I am descending deep into my heart, to see who is dwelling in it besides me and You, O Eternal God. "And I am filled with fear as I find...

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