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The Feast of St. Gregory Palamas2 comments

marshmk wrote 2 weeks ago: Today, November 14, is the Feast of St. Gregory Palamas, monk, archbishop, and eminent theologian. H … more →

Tags: Saints, Theology, deification, Feast of St. Gregory Palamas, Gregory Palamas, Holy Eucharist, The Triad(s), Transfiguration

Gregory Palamas, 14 November

kbpipes wrote 2 weeks ago: Gregory Palamas was born in Constantinople (?) about 1296. He became a monk of the great community a … more →

Tags: feast day, Episcopal, Anglican, Saints, Episcopal Church, Gregory Palamas, Constantinople, Orthodox, Catholic

Implications of the Hypostatic Union

tesla1389 wrote 2 months ago: From Meyendorff’s Byzantium and the Rise of Russia.  This is in the context of monasticism as … more →

Tags: Old Russia, Byzantium, Meyendorff, Theosis

How to say the Jesus Prayer

Marinaki wrote 2 months ago: Five Stages The Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Be Merciful” Each stage ha … more →

Tags: Orthodox, Heart, Hierotheos, Jesus-Prayer, Monk, noetic, Nous

Archimandrite Zacharias on the Theology of St. Silouan

Marinaki wrote 2 months ago: Interview (in English) with Archimandrite Zacharias of the St. John the Baptist monastery in Essex, … more →

Tags: Orthodox, Prayer, Jesus-Prayer, Zacharias, Essex, Silouan, Sophrony, Orthodox Theology

St. Gregory Palamas’s Sermon on the Transfiguration

John Uebersax wrote 3 months ago: On the Transfiguration St Gregory Palamas, (Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς) Archbishop of Thessalonica (1296 – 13 … more →

Tags: Contemplation, Gnosis, Illuminative Mysteries, Mysteries of Illumination, Mysteries of Light, Mysticism, Rosary, Transfiguration

The Transfiguration and the Hadron Collider

celebratingtime wrote 3 months ago: Once upon a time, there were two monks who had a famous (well, in certain circles) disagreement abou … more →

Tags: Celebrations, festivals, memorials, God, etc., Feast of the Transfiguration, Orthodox Feasts, Roman Catholic feasts, barlaam, Gregory Palama

Life Emerging Out Of What Had Seemed Dead1 comment

djeter wrote 4 months ago: The following is adapted from Kathleen Norris’ Acedia & Me, a chronicle of her battle with acedi … more →

Tags: Reflections, Thomas Aquinas, Bertrand Russell, evagrius ponticus, The Praktikos, Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me, John Cassian, The Institutes

Prayer as Theosis

Chad wrote 5 months ago: This post was originally published at another site where I contribute each month.  It is a dialogica … more →

Tags: essays, Theology, Brother Lawrence, Dan Kimball, Divination, Easter Orthodox, Emergents, Emerging Church, eugene peterson

Instruments, Observation, Concepts, and Language

logismon wrote 7 months ago: Modern science has arisen by the accumulated techniques of testing with the aid of instruments the i … more →

Tags: Romanides, hesychia, empirical theology, Hesychasts

Some Links Concerning St. Gregory Palamas3 comments

Joseph Patterson wrote 8 months ago: Here are a few links on the life  and teaching of  St. Gregory Palamas. The Herald of Grace and Ligh … more →

Tags: Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christianity, St Gregory Palamas

True Union with God

logismon wrote 8 months ago: The Declaration of the Holy Mountain in Defence of Those who Devoutly Practise a Life of Stillness ( … more →

Tags: St Gregory Palamas, Hesychasts

Entering the Temple of the Heart3 comments

marshmk wrote 9 months ago: If the heart is the most authentic temple of God, the truest dwelling place of God, then it is also … more →

Tags: desert spirituality, Jesus-Prayer, Prayer, Heart, Anna, Meister Eckhart, Fasting, Silence, Solitude

Reflection for February 2 2009: With the imagination look inside your heart.

Benjamin wrote 10 months ago: <!–[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplo … more →

Tags: Thomas Merton

Reflection for January 21 2009: "I am present"

Benjamin wrote 10 months ago: If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.   n      Evagrios the Solitary  ( … more →

Tags: Christ, obama, Barack Obama

Weekly contemplation.

Isaac wrote 1 year ago: Consider, how the Lord in His divine wisdom, gave us the means of calling upon His name, and by desc … more →

Tags: Contemplation, noetic, Prayer

On pursuit of the divine eros...

fatherpatrick wrote 1 year ago: My heart longeth for Thee in a land where there is no water, untrodden, wasteland… I melt for … more →

Tags: reflections, ephemera, Love of God, Orthodox Worship

A Spiritual Glossary1 comment

Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: No, I wasn’t one of those kids who enjoyed reading dictionaries (much) … but you may do … more →

Tags: eastern orthodox christianity, Prayer, Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Salvation, Eastern Orthodoxy, Theosis

Dispassion

Leo Peter O'Filon wrote 1 year ago: From St. Feofil, the Fool for Christ’s Sake, courtesy of this blog: If you are praised, be sil … more →

Tags: eastern orthodox christianity, Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Spiritual Discipline, Theosis, Divinization


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