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Christmas

Posted on 23 December 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Charles Williams “Let us go a journey,” Quoth my soul to my mind, “Past the plains of darkness Is a house to find Where for my thirsting I shall have my fill, And from my torment I shall be … Continue reading →

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“‘Father,’ ‘Son,’ ‘Holy Spirit,’ ‘Person,’ ‘essence and nature,’ ‘like and unlike’–what has such a pattern of definition to do with a Being that must exist always in its own incomprehensibility?”

Posted on 8 December 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Less than fifty years after Origen’s death there were born in Africa two great opponents, Arius and Atha­na­sius. The followers of both claimed Origen as their own doctor. This curious double claim arose from an illu­mi­nation which has perhaps in … Continue reading →

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Taking the Bus to Hell

Posted on 4 December 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

One by one the lost souls step off the bus to enjoy a Great Divorce holiday in Heaven . . . and one by one they decide to take the bus back to the other place. The choice is theirs. … Continue reading →

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“The stones the Gnostics offered fitted the comers of many temples; only not of the City of Christendom”

Posted on 29 November 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The revolt against the Gnostic influence depended on two things. There was the capacity of individual anti-Gnostic writers, such as Irenaeus of Lyons. There was also—and far more important—the actual belief of the separate Church­es. It was on many points … Continue reading →

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“Christianity is, always, the redemption of a point”

Posted on 26 November 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Christianity is, always, the redemption of a point, of one particular point. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” In this sense there is nothing but now; there is no duration. We have nothing to do … Continue reading →

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A Leap in the Dark

Posted on 9 March 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Jonathan Geltner Part II: Luck (and Music) In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand. Bob Dylan Where wast thou when I laid the foundations … Continue reading →

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Desiring Dragons

Posted on 2 March 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Jonathan Geltner Part I: Glimpse But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Poem by C. S. Lewis

Posted on 23 December 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Turn of the Tide Breathless was the air over Bethlehem; black and bare The fields; hard as granite were the clods; Hedges stiff with ice; the sedge, in the vice Of the ponds, like little iron rods. The deathly … Continue reading →

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