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2021-01-25T00:45:54-04:00

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Meeting of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Last updated on: January 25, 2021 at 12:45 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

On this feast I give you the message from Bishop Thomas: I greet you on the solemn and joyous feast of the Meeting of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ! While there is much spiritual fruit to be harvested from this feast of the Lord, I would request you pay attention to the words of the holy God receiver Saint Symeon. Upon receiving the Christ Child from the arms of the Most Holy Theotokos, Saint Symeon exclaims, “Lord, now... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2021-01-28T22:01:36-04:00

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Equality is a Fiction, but Useful, Yet a Fiction.

Last updated on: January 28, 2021 at 10:01 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Look to beauty, all sorts. Once in Tsarskoye Selo I saw so much beauty at once that I was unable to process more. All I could do was pray. There is a limit to what we can handle even if the thing is good. The beauty in creation, constantly changing and growing, would kill us if we saw it all at once. Thank God we cannot. We see a bit, first when we open our eyes, then in our mothers, in... Read more

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2021-01-25T23:30:22-04:00

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Vroom! Vroom! (On Buying an Automobile and Empowering Employees)

Last updated on: January 25, 2021 at 11:30 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I learned something last week, but first I must tell you how, painfully, I learned this universal lesson. Vroom At last our motorcar, the faithful Israel, who came to us a lemon that by a divine warranty was made useful, gave out along with her coverage. She was not worth the cost of repairs and so Consumer Reports ratings in hand we went off into the Internet to buy a new-to-us used car. The final results were, we think, very good:... Read more

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2021-01-23T11:24:43-04:00

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A Thriving Soul: Beauty, Pleasure, Pain

Last updated on: January 23, 2021 at 11:24 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

There is education in beauty. The beauty, and the heights, made me giddy as I neared the top of the Duomo . The view from outside, overlooking Florence, was food for the imagination, but for me the feast was inside, seeing the arches and the art, caused my highest fantasy to fail. I was too feeble to see, let alone capture such overwhelming, gigantic, beauty. Every time I read Dante, moving with him as a guide toward Paradise, I recollect the... Read more

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2021-01-29T19:49:48-04:00

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God wants what is Good and Beautiful

Last updated on: January 29, 2021 at 7:49 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

God is love and has built a cosmos that is based on love. As a result, God allows us to consent to serve Him. One aspect of goodness in the cosmos, obvious to all of us, is beauty. Everywhere we look there is beauty. This is a sign not just His existence, but of His nature. There is also ugliness and evil, some of which we can explain by our misuse (my misuse!) of our ability to consent. Plato notwithstanding, we... Read more

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2021-01-30T23:14:08-04:00

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Beautiful You

Last updated on: January 30, 2021 at 11:14 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Beauty pierces. Beauty creates desire, shows that we want or need something, and so drives us toward the beloved. If the need is strong enough, this absolute romance will drive us to the very face of God. God is beautiful, totally, absolutely beautiful, and even a tiny pang, the slightest longing that sends us Godward, will drive us forever toward His face if we heed desire. A problem with meetings in a pandemic is being forced to stare at one’s... Read more

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2021-02-02T00:10:35-04:00

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Other People’s Heroes

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 12:10 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Christmas is almost a month behind us, but Christmas is coming. The lessons of that sacred feast, and the revealing of Jesus in the Epiphany are still close, and coming closer. One lesson would be very valuable just now to those who do not how to seek justice while having power. The day after Christmas, the Church wisely decided to celebrate the Feast of the first martyr, Stephen. We are reminded that not everyone was happy about the Good News. Sometimes... Read more

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2021-02-02T23:00:31-04:00

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Don’t Make the Objective Subjective

Last updated on: February 2, 2021 at 11:00 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

God created humankind in His image. He also created a cosmos where we could act as regents compassionately ruling over all things. God declared the creation “good” and so if humanity had not fallen short of His divine plan, all would have been well. We did not do as we ought to have done and so things break. We did the equivalent of spilling water in the keyboard of our laptop and the machine has been breaking down since. Jesus... Read more

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2021-02-05T22:54:57-04:00

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A Lesson in Beauty from the Fig Tree

Last updated on: February 5, 2021 at 10:54 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We run on the wrong clock. This is one way of understanding the “difficult” passage of Jesus cursing the fig tree in both Mark and Matthew: 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.... Read more

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2021-02-19T23:57:05-04:00

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Not in the Eye of the Beholder

Last updated on: February 19, 2021 at 11:57 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Sincere questions can show a desire for a relationship and a mind still awake to possibilities. We ask, because the beauty, the truth, and the goodness are there and we most often must get consent to go there. One reason we miss objective beauty is that we think beauty is something in us, in the eye of the beholder. If we see beauty, we think that the beauty itself is merely our feelings: beauty is in us. We see a... Read more

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