Enjoy this #TemporalTuesdays thought from St. Augustine. “When shall we be joyous? When we shall have passed over the river. Life everlasting is promised, resurrection is promised, there our flesh shall no longer shall be a river: for a river it is now, while it is mortality.”
It’s been over a month, and I’m still reeling from a comment I read on social media in January. Since yesterday was Forgiveness Sunday, signaling that we have now entered into Lent proper, I’m reflecting on how that single comment has shaped my attitude toward anger and reconciliation. It all started with a meme. What the meme actually…
Time for another #TemoralTuesdays… From Joyce Carol Oates.
Happy book launch day to the gratitude journal I helped create with Ancient Faith Publishing! Enjoy these lines from the introduction to this beautiful journal… Dear fellow travelers, ONE EVENING a handful of years ago, deep in the throes of a spiritual desert, I found a notebook and decided to write down one thing I was grateful…
This week’s #TemporalTuesdays post is from Fr. Thomas Hopko’s 55 Maxims. Enjoy!
(Note: Some links below may be affiliate links. More info here.) Not infrequently, Time and Despondency readers inquire what I recommend they read next. It’s a question I receive more often the closer Great Lent gets and folks start scoping out reading material to complement the themes of the Fast. With that in mind, I’m posting three books that…
Happy #TemporalTuesdays! Sincerely, Heraclitus.
Back in November, I read a wonderful homily by St. Gregory the Theologian that I have returned to often throughout Nativity this year. Oration 38 (read the full text here) was written in 380-81 and is often subtitled “On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ,” leaving Orthodox Christians everywhere to wonder: which is it, St. Gregory? Christmas or…
Enjoy this #TemporalTuesdays post from one of St. Gregory of Nyssa’s homilies on the birth of Christ!
The Nativity Fast starts tomorrow (New Calendar)! I can almost smell the pine trees… and lentils. Speaking of beans, in our tradition, we are given a multitude of time-honored practices that invite us into the liturgical and sacramental significance of Christ’s entrance into this world–fasting rubrics, for example, or added emphasis on repentance, prayer, and almsgiving. It’s tempting…