Christ’s great high priestly prayer is for the inner circle of his disciples to be kept safe in God’s holy Name, that they may be one with God and one another as he is one with the Father and God’s children in his Name (John 17:11). Love’s great glory is Christ’s sacrifice of the Cross, the mystery of the Lamb slaughtered from the… Read more »
The co-inherence of wisdom and glory hallows saints with unfolding mysteries of union, enfolding them in the Father’s love of the Son, embracing them with the Spirit’s insight into love, praying in them for all, through Christ’s love for all, to the glory of the Father. A worldly mentality stubbornly contests the wisdom of Christ, which it cannot comprehend, secretly… Read more »
Sudden presence is Christ’s timeless mystery, piercing through conditioned, temporal progression, uniting the uncreated and the created, time and the timeless, NOW, suddenly, timelessly, immediately. Christ is this timeless immediacy in the temple of the heart and in the eucharistic mystery of communion, as ecstatic suddenness, exaiphnes, which Saint Denys speaks of in his third epistle, describing it as unknowable and ineffable. Ecstatic suddenness… Read more »
Awakening to wisdom opens the heart to glorification of God in his Name, unveiling the ineffable abundance of love concealed in the glory of the Name, the uncreated grace of deification which shares God with all. This revelation of love’s glory far outshines all that can be grasped or conceived, filling saints to overflowing, expanding them from glory to glory. Love’s intimate glory… Read more »
The Name unites awareness with the presence of the Spirit’s unceasing prayer in the heart, deifying the children of God by grace, glorifying the Father through the Son. The Name crowns awareness with the presence of uncreated light, enthroning the heart in the presence of uncreated glory, empowering glorification. Indwelling Christ, saints first become seers in the Spirit, unveiling the face of… Read more »
I crown all who turn and see my presence in the midst, imbibing the Spirit of Truth with every breath, illumining the eye of the heart with the uncreated light of love’s glory. The fulness of my completeness blesses seers and saints with uncreated grace, sharing the glory of my love with you as you glorify me with your whole-hearted… Read more »
The heart of living Orthodoxy is alive in the light of love, renewing the tradition from within as vibrant joy. Love of God is the way to God’s light of love, which is the reason elders transmit the mystical theology of the Song of Songs. Without the light of love, Holy Orthodoxy shrivels up, reduced to its external forms and nominal… Read more »
The Name ‘I AM,’ ‘EHYEH,’ communicates the ecstatic joy of divine love, intimate union of God’s ‘I’ awareness with his ‘AM’ presence in the midst, unveiling love’s embrace of wisdom and glory as ecstatic joy, heavenly bliss and hallowing blessing. The Gospel discloses bliss and blessing by bearing witness to this ecstatic union of love. Love’s union of wisdom and glory is… Read more »
Desert elders, initiated in the Beloved Disciple’s School of love, continue to behold the Cross as the glory of love, not as penal substitution demanded by a punishing, feudal deity. Some contemporary secular Christians prefer to identify this feudal monstrosity with Christianity in order, by rejecting it, to advocate their religionless spirituality of love. But this was not the perspective… Read more »
In wisdom’s unveiling, a hermit’s prayer unveils the uncreated light of the countenance of God, revealing the glory of graced wholeness. The hermit does not just pray the Psalms, she enters the heart of the Psalms in the One, true Spirit that inspired them. “Turn us again, O Lord, God of hosts: shew the light of thy countenance and we… Read more »