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Precious Mother
Precious Mother The first time I saw you I will never forget My soul knew a peace A comfort I had never known Precious Mother Precious Mother Why have my eyes been so dry for tears? Oh I crumble for how long I have not known you My own mother who gave birth to me […]
O Thou Flesh
April 3, 2013
O thou flesh Repent thou to thy Lord Repent thou to thy Lord who made thee Turn unto thy creator, oh my body, be subject unto Him and glorify Him For the Son of God assumed thy form and hallowed the sinews of thy being He entered into thee and made thee one with Himself […]
I have often felt homosexual and wondered if I was gay
April 2, 2013
Or “A few reflections on gender and sexual attractions in the US society” I had taken a break from the news for Lent, but I could still glean the stirrings of some momentous and divisive issue provoking many of my friends into taking sides. I have for a long time felt extremely dissatisfied about the […]
Holy Week MMXIII
March 23, 2013
Brothers and sisters in Christ, Here is an album I recorded during Holy Week of last year. It is a collection of pieces written on each day of Holy Week as a reflection on the divine services according to the Eastern Rite. Click on the link to “Holy Week MMXII” near the track to access […]
Sky Father #7
March 4, 2013
Sky Father I cannot overcome The insatiable desire To praise with words Your ineffable beauty Sky Father Sky Father I cannot keep silence Even as the praises of Your world Are silently more deafening than my every thought Liberating me from my distractions Pointing me to You Sky Father Sky Father Oh I love You! […]
Mysterium Fidei
February 21, 2013
Sanguine sorrow is everlasting joy Timeless beginning from a transient end Reconstituted from a grain destroy’d Turning an enemy into a friend While we were yet sinners, grapes were crushed “What is truth?” I thought to reply Silent blood-water, great torrent gushed Ink darkness I breathed, closed tight my eyes The Truth shut my mouth […]
Sky Father #6
February 13, 2013
Sky Father I am burning with rage See where this godly sorrow has led O Holy One have mercy upon my sins Sky Father Sky Father Thou holdest storms in Thy hands The fire and sulfur and brimstone and ash Reign down upon me Sky Father Sky Father Thou wilt not find one righteous man […]
Reforming the Papacy – a Few Considerations
February 4, 2013
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. Some say that the Ecumenical Struggle (‘Movement’) has reached an impasse. Much consensus has been made on many issues, but without an ecclesiastical organ with enough authority to bring everyone together to assent to these consensi, division will continue. More Christians may be […]
Holy Father
November 26, 2012
[This essay explains why, as an Orthodox Christian, I reconciled myself with the Holy Father.] “When Christ calls a man, He bids him to come and die.” —Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp, 1945 Wisdom From my youth my father taught me that “if you could choose just one book of the Bible, you should […]
The Awful Division of Christians, pt. 3: The Urgency of Unity
September 10, 2012
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. In our first part of this series we argued that division among Christians should be discerned and evaluated on the basis of the balance between truth and love—truth must divide from falsehood, but love must bind brothers and sisters together. Thus every Christian […]
April 12, 2013
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