Constantly Reading Four Quartets

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

"Toward the Endless Day"

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Very occasionally, I have the leisure to browse in libraries. Yesterday, while seaching for something, I had the serendipity to find Toward ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Pochaiv Mother of God and "Little Gidding"

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{Click on the image for a larger view} The past week I have felt out of time. I have been travelling - Ottawa, Montreal, and home again. The...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

The Prologue from Ochrid for August 28th

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HOMILY by St. Nikolai Velomirovic About the forms of the Messiah "And we saw that He had no form nor comeliness" (Isaiah 53:2). ...
Friday, July 31, 2009

New Monastery Complex proposed for St. Tikhon's

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I suppose that much could be said about the proposed plans St. Tikhon's Monastery has to develop a new monastery complex to replace its ...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

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From The Journals of Fr. Alexander Schmemann : Tuesday, March 1, 1977 I am reading Henri Bremond with enormous interest. I am always interes...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

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Bells are not a musical instrument but “‘…an icon of the voice of God.’ A Russian bell, he said, must sound rich, deep, sonorous, and clear,...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

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"When in my childhood I called upon You consciously for the first time, You heard my prayer; You filled my heart with the blessing of p...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

A quote from St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Metropolitan Anthony on the Beginning of Lent

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Metropolitan ANTHONY (Bloom) of Sourozh Sunday of Orthodoxy 16 March 1997 In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are keep...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

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This is a re-post of an entry from February, 2007. As I have my face to the ground during this Lenten service , the thought crosses my ...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Zealous for Truth

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"Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has n...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

"The Lenten Spring Has Come"

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Many people are fasting from various electronic media practices, such as blogging, for Lent. I, on the other hand, am returning to it. For s...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

A Prayer by the Lake

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Stories are long, too long; the moral is short - one word. You are that word, O Word of God. You are the moral of all stories. What the star...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

American Thanksgiving

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See here for a Thanksgiving reflection. And why not here too for good measure.
Friday, March 07, 2008

BEYOND

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A portable art gallery not big enough to require a building but not small enough to be written on a grain of rice.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Christmas presence

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{Click on the images for a larger view} Icon pin of St Xenia of St. Petersburg , by the hand of Abigail Maria Fernandes , 2007. In the earl...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Winter in the North Country - Wishing I had some Boots of Spanish Leather

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This morning as I drove to pick up Krista from her night shift I had on the cd Putumayo Presents American Folk (2005). Though I've heard...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Friesen Family Band

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If you like faith-based roots music rising out of the "family band" tradition, you absolutely must check out the sensational Fries...
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Friday, August 31, 2007

Sacred Time, Camp, and St. Arseny

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I grew up going to Summer Camp. Every year. Days and nights at camp were the fulcrom of the year, and initiated me from my earliest days in...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

Like gold, refined by fire...

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Anyone who truly knows me, knows that I am a serious and committed whistler. This has gotten me in trouble on various occasions - namely at ...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

the light still shines...

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Thanks for your patience... more to come soon.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

There's been a lot going on lately...

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I usually resist as much as possible the easy road of simply responding "I'm busy" to most questions of how things are these ...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

Congraduations Krista!

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I just have to give congratulations to my esteemed collaborator in life, my brilliant and beautiful wife Krista, on receiving her Bachelor o...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Author of "Purity & Danger" Dies...

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Rest in Peace, Mary Douglas .
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

three years, five months, and nine days ago...

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Thanks, Victoria for passing on this photo. Look how young Jesse looks! Fr. Dennis looks a little different too!
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On the Coast of Paradise

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For the past ten days, Krista and I have been meandering. We went to BC, for my parents' 40th Anniversary, and then out to Victoria for ...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

The Birth of Ambrose

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The college I arrived at as an arrogant 17 year old, and later taught at, has changed its name. I could not be more pleased about the chang...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Christ is Risen!

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

A Little Something from "Four Quartets"

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{I took this photo at our church on the Sunday of the Cross, a few weeks ago} The Fourth Part of "East Coker" IV The wounded surge...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Escarpment Blues

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Escarpment Blues If they blow a hole in my backyard Everyone is gonna run away The creeks won’t flow to the Great Lake below Will the wate...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Thanks where thanks are due...

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I thank the Ochlophobist for his stalwart defence of the fruits of our Cistercian brethren's labours .
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Jesus Camp

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About a month ago, Krista and I happened to be watching late night TV (something we very rarely do), and came across George Stromboulopoulo...
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