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All of Life is a Journey – #TemporalTuesdays

March 31, 2020February 28, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas

A #TemporalTuesdays thought from Esther de Waal, a scholar on Celtic and Benedictine traditions.

Do you regard death as a thing of terror? #TemporalTuesdays

March 24, 2020February 28, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas 1

A #TemporalTuesdays thought from St. John Chrysostom’s Homily 2 on Colossians.

No age stands still – #TemporalTuesdays

March 10, 2020February 28, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas

Enjoy this #TemporalTuesdays thought from St. Augustine: “Observe whether any age stands still. Boys desire to grow up; they know not how by succeeding years the span of their life is lessened. For years are not added to but taken from them as they grow: just as the water of a river always draws near, but from the…

When Shall We Be Joyous? #TemporalTuesdays

March 3, 2020February 28, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas

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.”

Meeting Mrs. D and Remembering My Existential Childhood…

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 · Nicole M. Roccas 6

It was a hot, muggy morning last week, the final day of my month-long vacation in Wisconsin, and my abdomen was in a state of turmoil. I’d later realize my stomach tumult was not indigestion but a bilious stone in the gallbladder I should have had removed years ago. I tried to focus on the task at hand…

Spending the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross at a Funeral Home

September 19, 2018 · Nicole M. Roccas 1

First of all, some context: I am currently co-teaching a course with Fr. Geoffrey Ready about death in the Orthodox tradition. One of the things we come up against in this course is the fact that death in our culture is kind of a black box–people go in, they die, a bunch of paperwork (right?), then there’s a…