Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in essays, orthoparadoxy on 17 October 2008 - 19 תשרי 5769
s the current series winds down (I need only to add a conclusion) I’ve decided to add the previous series into it. The Invitation to communion (”With Faith and Love Draw Near!”) as well as the most recent post on Bible Reading as Tarot Reading, seems to me to be a full set with [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 October 2008 - 9 תשרי 5769
Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way - outward…
When Jesus said that we are to Love God [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 October 2008 - 5 תשרי 5769
HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers [...]
Posted in lit101 on 1 October 2008 - 3 תשרי 5769
ATHER Victor (Memory Eternal!) shared this quote with us via the Holy Trinity Newsletter. I just found it in my blogger account (from back when I used blogger).
This is eternally precious to us, because we too live ordinary lives, and the fact that the Lord lived such a life, sanctifies everything: from the difficulty, [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 19 September 2008 - 20 אלול 5768
RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 September 2008 - 8 אלול 5768
Last time, in this series on the “Big Three” (see the menu in the sidebar, there) I wrote about God having flesh. And there was an interesting conversation in the comments afterward. I tired to make it clear that these essay are documenting what I think is needed for Christianity to make sense. [...]
Posted in Ontology on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
F I’m ever asked why I want to be a priest, I hope I can be this eloquent. (Props to Fr T)
Posted in AnarXPistos, orthoparadoxy on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
ROPER CHRISTIAN Revolution is a threat to the social order. Opposition to caste system is root of attacks against Christians in India, says archbishop. He errs, I think, when he hopes, “We will be given help by the central government and by the State” because that comes at a price. But Glory [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 31 August 2008 - 1 אלול 5768
Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation.
LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
Continuing in my reverse order - Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity (like good labyrinth walkers, we will turn around and come out the other way) - we come to Incarnation, now. The complete menu for this series is located in the sidebar, just below the Peace Cross.
HE EXPERIENCE of the Early Church was that [...]
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