Christ never ceases to impart the Great Peace and the Holy Spirit never ceases to reveal the Great Peace of the Name. “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and Great shall be the Peace of thy children” (Isaiah 54:13). Children of God, taught by the Lord, led by the Spirit, come to know the glory of the… Read more »
Christ came to reveal union with God, confirmed by the Holy Spirit as communion with God among saints and angels, revealing union as deifying communion in all through all. Christ was himself the union he came to bring, but he gave his life and shared himself with all, emptying himself out into all to save all. Not all are willing… 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 »
Wisdom reveals Holy Trinity as God’s witness to God in God, divine reciprocation, answering the Spirit’s witness to the Son, who reveals the glory of the Father. Reciprocation occurs whenever the invocation of God hallows the saving Name, bestowing the reign of God on those who invoke grace in the Name of Jesus, fulfilling the Lord’s Prayer. The remembrance of God in… 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 »
The uncreated presence of glory is wisdom’s holy secret, called a precious pearl by Christ, inspiring many centuries of spiritual pearl questing. The myth of the pearl symbolises the awakened heart, which completes the incompleteness of temporal experience. The scope of wisdom is the scope of glory, uncreated presence whose completeness loves wisdom as wisdom loves glory. Uncreated awareness is ever-present in… 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 »
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 »