The Holy Grail is the parousia of Christ’s uncreated presence hidden in the midst of creation, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the parousia of presence that Christ’s Holy Name reveals, Jesus, Yah Shuah ‘I AM saves’. The second coming of Christ is the Grail of eschatological presence that is found when Eucharistic union is unveiled, the Name is… Read more »
Co-companions of glory hallow the Holy Name of God in the midst, acknowledging the love that unites them at centre, in-breathed with the Spirit’s kiss, whose joy is to reveal the Son’s union with the Father, restoring fallen glory to God in Holy Trinity. Bearing each other’s burdens, both die daily into each other’s lives, transforming confusion into union, division into… Read more »
The sacred company of co-companions of the Holy Name was no ordinary company, because it indwelt the hallowing union of the Spirit in Christ that restored glory to the Father. Co-companionship was always communion in the Spirit that opens to union with the Son in his co-communion with the Father, inhabiting the Holy Trinity from within. The Spirit still inspires hallowing communion… Read more »
Conventional religiosity prefers contention without contrition, whereas Saint Silouan the Hesychast taught contrition without contention, preferring the immeasurable measures of love. Contention finds fault with those out there, whilst contrition knows the fault lies nearer home, but does not collapse into the narcissism of self-obsessed self-hatred, for here at home, love dwells where God dwells. Love leaps over the hyper-sensitivity of… Read more »
In Christ, death opens into the uncreated light of glory, because Christ’s death on the Cross overcomes death by death, unveiling the light of glory. Given death opens into uncreated light that overcomes death, revealing uncreated glory, it is an open entrance into realms of light and glory, not what fear dreads. Faith, hope and love know that although fear arises, death… Read more »
‘Name Binding’ was the way Saint Patrick unveiled the remembrance of God in his Lorica, his Breastplate invocation of the Name. ‘I bind unto myself the Name,’ he chanted, communicating ‘Name Binding’ as bondage breaking, an unbinding that binds powers of bondage by releasing them with blessed bonds of boundless love. The wisdom of Saint Patrick’s Lorica breaks, then binds, then… Read more »
The co-inherence of Christ and his beloved disciple opens to their right-glorifying communion at the heart of Holy Orthodoxy, but the mystery remains hidden until wisdom unveils it, whose gaze and kiss embraces Christ in the Holy of Holies. Co-inherence is both a Christophanic and Trinitarian theophany but is also key to all the theophanic mysteries of love. Christ’s beloved bears witness… Read more »
When awareness turns, awareness becomes aware of awareness, but does not yet know love of knower as love known. Turning is not yet illumination and so does not yet awaken to the uncreated light of love. When love dawns, the uncreated light of love turns illumination round, which in turn is not yet glorification, because light is not yet… Read more »
The glory of love may first be unveiled in a human salutation of love, as in the love of Beatrice for Dante, then in wisdom’s love of both that unveils human loves as icons of divine love. The way of glorification is the revelation of the glory of love, arising when illumination purifies love at the heart of the mysteries of glory…. Read more »
At Christmas, the Church celebrates the Holy Nativity of Christ, remembering the story of Christ’s birth in the stable at Bethlehem, the angels and the shepherds on the hill, with the wise men from the east offering gold, frankincense and myrrh at his feet. But wisdom also remembers the eternal birth of Christ in hearts that awaken to his presence,… Read more »