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April 2019

April 24, 2019

A child in Kassiani’s garden: for Great and Holy Wednesday

When I was about four, I once said to my elderly babysitter that my mom...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

‘…that I may carry out your holy and true command’: on the San Damiano Cross and the theologia crucis (St Philip’s Fast #1)

I was having a conversation recently with a Korean American friend of mine who finds...

November 23, 2018

‘Glory to God in all things’: forthcoming mystagogical reflections on the postsecular

Last night, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I prayed the Akathist of Thanksgiving, Glory to...

October 2018

October 01, 2018

Back to Asian American basics

Today was my first day back on the job teaching. The quarter officially started on...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Crossing the rooms of the intellect

Once upon a time, the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci impressed the Ming imperial court...

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Writing to clarity on the abuse crisis in the Latin Church

Over the past week or so, I've been trying to work through what I think...

August 15, 2017

The assumption of the people (Dormition Fast #14)

Recently, a priest of the Latin Church impressed on me the significance for the West...

August 01, 2017

The bearing of God, the death of triumphalism (Dormition Fast #1)

There is a story about Constantinople that makes the inner evangelical in me wince. It's...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death #Pascha2017

Christ is risen! Христос Воскрес! I have much more to say tomorrow about the Latin service...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 1: on being tricked into doing proper prostrations at the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

This is the first in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St...

January 2017

January 09, 2017

In high school, I wanted to become a Byzantine historian, but all I became was a Byzantine blogger

Around my sophomore year in high school, my uncle told me that his neighbor was...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Late for an Umbrella Movement retreat, I learned makrodiakonia as the art of political discernment by accidentally walking through the deacon door

Shortly after the clergy prayer meeting that I wrote about in my last post, the...

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

The Missionaries of Charity almost made me miss a flight once because they caused a little explosion of love in my heart

Two days ago, the Latin Church canonized Mother Teresa of Calcutta. As usual, I am late...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Most Holy Theotokos, save us (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum 'Catholicity: Identity and...

August 17, 2016

Help the Byzantine monks to burn the mortgage!

On Byzantine internet, there is an appeal that is going around that is well worth...

August 07, 2016

I’m getting my chrismation icons blessed!

I was chrismated on the Vigil of Ss Peter and Paul on June 28. It...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

This is what a normal Jesuit looks like

The Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola is just winding down to a close. I...

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