Cameron Dixon 🥀☠️⏳
@DixonCameronS
Catholic. Medievalist. Eastern Church Fathers, Ascetico-Mystical Theology, Symbolism, Tolkien. Trying to recover a medieval mind and feed my soul with Beauty.
I just published a new essay on the Eucharistic symbolism of Advent inspired by the ancient liturgical hymn “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.” open.substack.com/pub/camerondix…

Great🧵on the proper end of understanding symbolism and the importance of having embodied practices rather than just propositional knowledge of symbolism.
What is the symbolism of wanting to know what the symbolism of something is? People wanting to speak and think about symbolism instead of learning healthy Christocentric embodied practices are not helping themselves...
The Beauty of Christ seduces all things from non-being into being: “For beauty is the cause of harmony, of sympathy, of community. Beauty unites all things and is the source of all things. It is the great creating cause which bestirs the world and holds all things in existence…

I hate taking the dog to the vet or a pet store. There is this weird uncanny energy in these places where everyone pretends that the animals are human beings and talk to them as if they were small children. I love animals, but they aren’t people, and I’m deeply suspicious of…
Blessed feast of St. Charbel, the Wonder-worker of the East! "A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, a man who does not pray scarcely exists." - St. Charbel

This is hilarious but also unironically very true. These mundane cycles are fractals or microcosms of how Time works at a larger scale. Even though doing laundry and dishes and mowing the yard are not very interesting, they show the inevitability of ritual. Our days, weeks,…
The way I feel when I drive into a housing development is the same way I feel when I walk into IKEA and this is not a mistake. It is soul crushing.
The way I feel when I drive into a housing development is the same way I feel when I walk into IKEA and this is not a mistake. It is soul crushing.
The way I feel when I drive into a housing development is the same way I feel when I walk into IKEA and this is not a mistake. It is soul crushing.
“There is something deeply demonic in the way IKEA is constructed!” @richardrohlin
I believe we actually know nothing about food. Symbolically it was always understood that what you eat becomes part of you, hence the idiom "you are what you eat." This give a better understanding of the Eucharist along with why cultural food are a food of that culture.
So glad to see @malcolmguite's first of his 4-volume Arthurian cycle is available for preorder. Many of us have been following its progress and looks like it's getting the treatment it deserves; can't wait to crack it open next spring. Pre-order here: store.rabbitroom.com/products/merli…
For as much as I love Byzantine and Russian liturgics and hymnography, there’s just something about traditional western liturgy and chant that feels like home. It’s the sanctification of western culture.
I want to find an old church with great reverb and start a western rite monastery :,/
"The purpose of creation, the purpose of man is the love of God, the Creator and the Father; an ever greater love, divinization, return to God from whom he came, union with God, a fruitful love. So that the love toward the Father could become even more perfect, infinitely more…

Last week, the Church celebrated the feast of the 120 Chinese Martyrs (July 9th) in commemoration of the holy men and women who gave their lives for the one true faith. Among these martyrs is St. Xi Zhuzi, an 18-year-old catechumen who was martyred during the Boxer Rebellion.…

The Church needs less apologists, & more saints. You should only attempt to be the former insofar as it leads you to become the latter. Apologetics can easily become tainted with pride, & fame can tempt a person to lead a double life. "Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat."
Went to a local used bookstore last night and ended up leaving with about 1000 pages worth of Arabian Nights material. So I guess my weekend is sorted.