Tag: theosis

  • Mysticism, Mission, and Monsters

    Mysticism, Mission, and Monsters

    Enoch, Bertrand Russell, and the consequences of reductionism “Imagine that there are three powerful and mighty giants of the Philistines, upon whom depends the whole hostile army of the demonic Holofernes (cf. Judith 2:4). When these three have been overthrown and slain, all the power of the demons is fatally weakened. These three giants are…

  • If A, Then A

    If A, Then A

    Law of Forgiveness “For if ye forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not men their transgressions, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions” (The Gospel According to St. Matthew 6:14-15). The Sermon on the Mount changed my life. Nothing compares. While Pentecost restored what was broken…

  • Untitled: C Minor

    Untitled: C Minor

    What’s interesting is madness The comic book writer, Alan Moore, on his fortieth birthday decided “rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a mid-life crisis I decided it might actually be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician. This had…

  • Under the Paschal Light pt. iii

    Under the Paschal Light pt. iii

    The Light, Calling from the Dark Part i Part ii Liturgy brings people together where each participates in a mutual self-offering, every joy and sorrow of the week recapitulated in the eternal self-giving of Christ, caught up in His Cross and Resurrection—eros and agape—glorifying Him glorified, and partaking of His glory by the Mysteries of…

  • He Who Has Ears

    He Who Has Ears

    Reflections on Luke 8:5-8 “A Sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it. Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns,…