Month: April 2013

Adoration and Rejuvenation

“When I am in adoration, what matters is not my capacity to be lucid for an hour, but rather the fact that in accounting for...

Thanksgiving After Holy Communion

Constrained by the Holy Spirit Abba Agapios lingered in church after the Holy Oblation whilst his disciple Theophilos waited for him to begin the meal....

The Bridegroom is the Lord

Image from the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis Into the Open Arms of God With the Ascension, the Son of God brought to the Father our humanity...

The Rosary

Praying in the Balkans Yesterday, a dear friend of mine, an Orthodox Christian — husband, father, and physician serving in the U.S. military in the...

Raised up by the abasement of the Son

Painting by Ottavio Mazzonis: Gesù cade per la terza volta Deus, qui in Filii tui humilitate iacéntem mundum erexísti: fidelibus tuis perpétuam concéde lætítiam; ut,...