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 »
The remembrance of God is ineffable, reflecting the openness of wisdom and the oneness of timeless glory. The way of truth is the way of abiding that establishes deification as a way of life. This way of life inherits the language of prophecy which inspires pure prayer, listening to the Spirit’s unceasing prayer glorifying God in his Name. The reason… 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 »
Saints are sinners who turn and see God in the midst, turning away from vanity as they turn round into God, painfully incomplete as sinners but trusting the completeness of grace to complete them. Grace loves to make sinners saints, so whilst sin separates them from holiness, grace hallows them with its completeness. Prophecy employs poetic prose to awaken hearts to wisdom,… Read more »
Christ personally reveals himself in uncreated light, restoring glory to the Father, communicating wisdom in the Holy Spirit, renewing Orthodox Hesychasm in the stillness of the Holy Trinity. The wisdom of the Cross cannot be reduced to verbal repetition or external conformity, although worldly powers love to reduce wisdom to external conformity. Stillness is often persecuted for cleaving to the… Read more »
Gracious stillness was the womb of light in generations past, and will be the womb of glory in the age to come, opening mysteries of glory in timeless presence through timeless wisdom. The living movement of Holy Hesychasm abides in the presence of graced stillness, manifesting new dimensions of silence and solitude in the reign of timeless glory. Stillness awakens prophecy in the… Read more »
Dazzling depths of wisdom reveal dizzying heights of glory in the revelatory Name, inspiring Abba Evagrius, the Macarian ‘Homilies,’ the writings of Saint Denys, Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s ‘Hymns of Love’ and the many writings of Saint Gregory Palamas with the experience (peira) of uncreated light of glory. Ecstatic rapture is for beginners, says Saint Symeon, indicating that mature enlightenment is intrinsic… Read more »
Christian wisdom has long been distanced by centuries of dualistic thinking that imposed separation on its piercing insight, cancelling glorification. But genuine enlightenment was never totally absent, because Christ lives at the heart of all Christian mysteries, restoring glorification. Conventional clericalism imposed separation because it sought to control large numbers of passive followers, not because Christian wisdom is inherently dualistic. Both… Read more »
Co-suffering martyrs bear witness to mysteries of co-glorification in Christ, according to the Apostle Paul (Rom 8: 16-17). Just as illumination sees in a mirror what glorification beholds face to face, so formal prayers give way to unceasing prayer in the Holy Spirit when spiritual prayer mirrors love that does not give way to anything, except perhaps more love (1 Cor 13:… Read more »
Dove’s wings encircle the heart with grace, hallowing saints with the Holy Spirit. The heart is renewed from within with the joy of the Name, conjoining awareness and presence, wisdom and glory. The Spirit of truth embraces with a kiss of peace, revealing wisdom’s gaze of undying life. Dove’s wings hover over awakened hearts, communicating the loving kindness of the Paraclete,… Read more »