The hour of glory dawns when the Son prays that the Father may glorify the Son that the Son may glorify the Father (John 17: 1). Eternal life is knowledge of God, not natural immortality, granting reciprocal glorification by grace to saints, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit. Revelation of the Name is revelation of God the Holy Trinity, not… Read more »
In Christ, God is faithfully always Yes, not Yes and No, always Amen, always glory to God (2 Cor 1: 18-20). The promises of God in Christ are faithful and true, always Yes, not yes and no, always Amen, ‘so be it,’ ‘thus so,’ always giving ‘glory to God.’ This indivisible Yes springs from the very heart of God into the… Read more »
The Wisdom of the Cross discerns the wondrous realms of love, but it is child-like trust that actually enters the heavenly realms of glorious love. Mother Wisdom works her magic in the liminal realms of childhood, countering the demonic powers that rule this world. Love’s magic spells enchant childhood with drama and mystery, powerfully rooting life in wholesome goodness. The magic… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the difference between communion and confusion, difference and division, distinguishing between demonic parody and divine paradox in spheres of wisdom and glory. Crucial difference stems from the wisdom of the Cross which separates delusion from glory by consuming vanity from vainglory. The Cross of timeless wisdom lies at the very heart of Christian Orthodoxy because wisdom lies at the heart… Read more »
Christ prays: ‘Father, glorify thy Name. The Father, in a peal of thunder, answers: I have glorified it and will glorify it again’ ( John 12: 28). The hour of glorification casts out the ruler of this world and his demon minions, lifting up the Son of Man. Christ is glorified in his Name, which is the seed of the… Read more »
The Holy Spirit, Ruach ha-Qodesh, remembers holy saints so that they are always lovingly remembered, overcoming every confusion that divorces wisdom from glory, healing every division that separates glory from wisdom, curing subtle deviations of heart and mind. Holy wisdom communicates uncreated energies of ineffable power that deify saints by glorifying them as they offer their glorification of God, bestowing… Read more »
Love completes faith and hope by communicating the ineffable completeness of glory that perfects faith into wisdom and hope into glory, fulfilling temporal incompleteness in timeless completeness. We began the new year 2023 with the language of angels, which is love, centring where God is centred, in the completeness of infinite love. Today is the Feast of Saint Seraphim of… Read more »
Love is the language of angels, uniting heavenly realms with earthly worlds, singing the ineffable language of wisdom. When wisdom sings, prophecy breaks free from the conventional mind that lives from fear and imposes control, cutting through obstructive barriers, soaring over stubborn resistance. Wisdom is prophetic as it prays without ceasing in the Holy Spirit, communicating union with the Father in Christ,… Read more »
The bedrock of glorification is the remembrance of God, revealing God through God’s remembrance of God, unveiling divine love through deifying love. The Beloved Disciple is loved by God, glorified by love’s remembrance of God, beginning with recognition, ending with remembrance. Union with the Beloved is the bedrock of love’s communion, bedrock of Christian witness to eschatological wisdom, descending as living presence… Read more »
Totalitarian religion condemns to hell those it cannot control, whereas Christ descends to empty hell, releasing the condemned. Wisdom through Christ puts right what religion gets wrong, descending into hell to quench its infernal fires, turning them into purgatorial flames of love, completing Christ’s passion by suffering love’s passion as the Song of Songs. Wrought in the fathomless depths of hell,… Read more »