TemporalTuesdays Archives

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.

A #TemporalTuesdays from St. Patrick

March 17, 2020February 28, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas

Enjoy this #TemporalTuesdays thought from St. Patrick’s lorica:

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.”

The strangeness of time…

February 25, 2020February 7, 2020 · Nicole M. Roccas

Time for another #TemoralTuesdays… From Joyce Carol Oates.

A #TemporalTuesdays post about the prayers of Hannah

October 29, 2019October 27, 2019 · Nicole M. Roccas

I’m giving thanks because today’s the official launch date for my new book, Under the Laurel Tree: Grieving Infertility with Saints Joachim and Anna! In honor of this momentous occasion, I selected today’s #TemporalTuesdays quote from it. The sermon I quote is from Vol 1 of St. John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Old Testament (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2007).…