The beauty of holiness, which is glory, is union and communion with the oneness of the Name. Glory is the healing oneness of the Name, embracing one and all in beauty of holiness through union and communion. Oneness calls forth union and communion but is not heard until wisdom embraces the Name. True hearing happens when wisdom bears witness, shema, to the Name, Shem, revealed on… Read more »
Saint David calls on us in our time, as he in his, to be joyful, keep the faith and to remember the little things. It was his joyful, right glorifying faith that transformed the wooded valley of the Afon Alun into a heaven on earth and transfigured the starry stones of the crystal headland into an earthly heaven. Joy opens the heart… Read more »
Saint Silouan the Athonite bears witness to love of enemies as the spiritual criterion of true Orthodox Christian Tradition. Whenever political enmity threatens to divide the Orthodox Church, the mystery of Pentecost speaks to her condition, revealing how love of enemies acknowledges the many warring tongues even as it bears witness to the one Spirit, the one flame of fire… Read more »
Archimandrite Sophrony left many gifts to those who revered and loved him, but to some he bequeathed the healing mystery of the Name ‘I AM,’ set like a jewel within the mysteries of self-emptying kenosis and of perichoresis, co-inherence. Recently, in a woodland skete just like many to be found on the Holy Mountain but blessing England with its humble presence… Read more »
The name Jesus was given to the Christ because his prophetic function was to renew revelation of the saving Name ‘I AM’ and so, by hallowing the Name, unveil the kingdom come. The prophet Isaiah had said long ago that all God’s children shall be taught by ‘I AM’ and great shall be the peace of his children. (Isaiah 54:13… Read more »
Cleaving to God in his Name releases into resounding union with God through his Name. The cleaving, devekut, transfigures the human spirit with the deifying resonance of divine life, as it is written, “But you that did cleave to ‘I AM’ your God, are alive every one of you this day” (Deut 4:4). Christ transmits the Name ‘I AM,’ as resounding… Read more »
The Kingdom of God is unveiled by the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, one revelatory Name, ‘I AM,’ three ways that God is arche and telos of all that there is. ‘He who is,’ YHWH, reveals who he is, was and shall ever be in the Name ‘I AM,’ EHYEH, addressing us in the Covenant formula of Theophany as ‘Thou,’… Read more »
The Kingdom of God is unveiled by the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, imparting wisdom which discerns the glory of the Name ‘I AM,’ turning hearts back into God seeing God in God, uncreated light opening to uncreated glory in seven heavens. The Kingdom of heaven unfolds as seven heavens, which fall into confusion as seven hells,… Read more »
Meister Eckhart says that in the Father, the Son is born in God eternally, the Logos is generated in us incessantly, releasing the Spirit to abide in the Son in us so that in the Spirit we return to the Father instantaneously. The irruption of the Son in our midst coincides with our break-through into God the Logos, showing that… Read more »
As the prophet of prayer, Elijah turns the hearts of spiritual fathers to their children and the hearts of spiritual children to their fathers, lest the curse of separation overcome us. (Malachi 4: 4-6) The prophet Malachi bears witness to the holy function of Elijah, the function of turning hearts to ‘I AM,’ God’s presence in his self-revelatory Name, imparted… Read more »