Fr Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B.
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Anglican Ascetic Episode 3 is live! Teachings on Silent Prayer using S. Bede, Martin Thornton, Evelyn Underhill, and Hans Boersma—along with responses to viewer questions. Check it out! substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://f…
S. Silouan: "I judge by my own case: if the Lord so loved me, it must mean that He loves all sinners in the same measure as He loves me. O love of God, no power can describe it, for it is immeasurably great and wonderful." (Yearning for God)
Episode 4 of Anglican Ascetic: "Anglican Spirituality with Fr Greg Peters" —Available 29 July. Look for it!
“Who of us understands love? But we all have experienced love. We are to become aware of God’s mystery, to see the mystery inherent in Christian life as something very different than life outside the Church.” substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://f…
Before Sunday Plainsong Evensong at stpaulsnsb.org
Happy Feast of St Anne! I've shared a lot of statues of the St Anne Trinity recently, but for her feast day and my name day, I'm resharing an image that's closer to home, from @bodleianlibs MS Liturg. 401 f. 30v, a Sarum Use Book of Hours, showing St Anne teaching Mary to read.
Boersma: “[D]ivine books require divine reading… To read the Scriptures sacramentally is to look for Christ as the content of the biblical text… [Origen] makes absolutely no distinction between lectio divina and regular Bible reading. They are one and the same thing.”
A blessed 6th Sun. after Trinity! Liturgy schedule at stpaulsnsb.org: 5.30 pm Sat. Plainsong Evensong 8.30 am Sun. Plainsong Matins 10 am Solemn Mass 5 pm Plainsong Evensong
We invite everyone to enter into the spirit, significance, and purpose of our Diocesan Synod by prayer. God bless you!
At that point in caramelized onions when it looks like they never will.
A thread about St Anne, whose feast is today. In medieval iconography she's depicted as a revered mother and grandmother, with a special focus on her role in her daughter's education.
Today is the feast of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. In medieval art, she is often depicted teaching her little daughter to read. Medieval stained glass from Marsh Baldon, Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, All Souls, Oxford, and Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
A blessed feast of S. Anne, mother of Blessed Mary! At stpaulsnsb.org
God be praised
A blessed feast of S. Anne, mother of Blessed Mary! At stpaulsnsb.org
Today marks the 133rd birthday of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of the Solomonic Dynasty, the last Orthodox Christian Emperor, from the biblical House of David, murdered in cold blood by communists in 1974. The Solomonic Dynasty, which, since ancient times, ruled over…