The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, restoring glory to the Father through the Son, revealing Holy Trinity from the inside for all, in all. Proceeding and abiding are unceasing as the Spirit breathes life into each and all, inspiring whole-hearted trust. The Spirit of Truth sustains abiding way beyond the grasp of relative knowledge,… Read more »
God reveals God in three tenses of the Name, ‘I AM He who is, who was and who is to come’ (Rev 1:8). The three tenses of the revelatory Name look like three separate times, time present, time past and time future, but time present is ever-present, breaking into time from the Age to come, transcending time in the age to come. Time present… Read more »
The Gospel of glory communicates the glory of grace, revealing the glory of completeness in the midst of incompleteness, completing incompleteness within the perfecting embrace of wisdom. Glory completes incompleteness by overturning time, breaking through time into timeless presence, opening presence with the gaze of wisdom, turning awareness round into the source of awareness, grounding wisdom in glory. The Gospel of… Read more »
Wisdom loves her timeless doxology descending from on high to glorify God, restoring glory to the Father with the Son, through the unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit. Doxology is divine essence in act, actively expressing quintessential divinity, revealing Holy Trinity: ‘Glory be to Thee, O our God, Glory be to thee.’ This very ancient doxology predates the dogmatic theology of… Read more »
Gratitude gives thanks for the miracle of grace, no longer taking everything for granted but fully awakening to the mystery of radical gift. Gratitude steps back from being to the wonder of being which opens to the timeless well-being of glory. To give thanks is intrinsic to the Eucharist, which communicates thanksgiving through the sacrament of Holy Communion, conveying the… Read more »
Unknowing knows as it is known, which is wisdom’s way of knowing, not to be confused with nihilistic agnosticism or relativist ignorance, which does not know as it is known. Wisdom’s way of knowing transcends dualistic knowledge, so is described as unknowing, but knows that it humbly knows as wisdom knows, surrendering the controlling desire to know. Love knows in this way, transcending faith… Read more »
Listening to the Holy Spirit, wisdom discerns the glory of the Name, hallowing the Kingdom come. The post-war generation was very influenced by secularism, but thanks to mothers who prayed in the Spirit for their sons, there were enough Christians left to listen to the Holy Spirit’s whisper in their heart of hearts. Prophecy was not quenched nor prayer extinguished,… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy is not an ethnic commitment but a martyr’s costly witness, willingly laying down one’s life for the Holy Name of God. The Name asks, who is it who says I AM? God answers, it is I: ‘I AM HE,’ revealing God, through the Holy Name of God. I am ‘HE WHO IS,’ unveiling God in your midst. I… Read more »
The difference between division and difference mirrors the difference between confusion and communion, revealing the paradoxical completeness of co-inherent communion. Completeness is not totalitarian sameness nor divisive, premature closure, suppressing difference out of fear of division. The Spirit prays unceasingly for the reign of the Name to be revealed, lovingly communicating decisive wisdom, wisely curing dithering indecision. The rational mind cannot conceive the ineffable glory… Read more »
Severance cuts through confusion so that sublation rises above division, curing coonfusion and division in different ways. Both severance and sublation are life-giving acts of uncreated energy, but severance begins with wisdom whilst sublation ends with glory. The Father begets the Son as God from God and light from light, regenerating saints in light through light of glory. Severance separates out… Read more »