Monthly Archives: January 2023

Fr John Behr: “The Gratitude of the Suffering Earth”

Posted on 31 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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The Infernal Quarantine of Love

Posted on 29 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way into eternal pain, I am the way to go among the lost. Justice caused my high architect to move: Divine omnipotence created me, The highest wisdom, and … Continue reading →

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“Mary incorporates everything that the icon incorporates: she became the place where God came to dwell”

Posted on 26 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Without doubt, the most popular of the saints is the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God: the one who gave God her humanity, so that he could become human, become one of us. Mary, then, incorporates everything that the icon … Continue reading →

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“The use of perspective is intended to create a space that embraces both what is depicted in the icon and the one who beholds the icon”

Posted on 25 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

My first point concerns the way in which icons occupy a kind of ‘in-between space’, the way in which the icon is essentially something between – between God and human kind, between heaven and earth, between the realm of the … Continue reading →

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“A theology based on images can recognize the fundamental mystery that enshrouds the Godhead, the mystery that God is”

Posted on 23 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Icons, images – of Christ, the Mother of God and the saints – came to be used widely in Christianity, not just as pictures on panels or walls (frescoes), but on sacred vessels, garments, banners and even more intimate objects … Continue reading →

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Discussing St Maximus the Confessor

Posted on 21 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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How Hot is Hellfire? The Retributive and Choice Models of Hell

Posted on 20 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For almost two millennia, especially in the Western Churches, everlasting damnation has been understood and justified as an expression of retributive punishment: God justly con­demns the reprobate because of their sins. The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia, in its entry “Hell” authored … Continue reading →

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An Ocean of Light: A Book Review

Posted on 16 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Clifton Stringer, Ph.D. Martin Laird is the author of the Oxford Early Christian Studies monograph Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith (2004); and he has subsequently written a trio of books of unusual quality on contemplative prayer: … Continue reading →

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