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On Embracing the Divinity of the Christ Child

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On the Coming Emmanuel

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On Origen, Saint Basil the Great, and Saint Gregory Nazianzus

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On Christ Known through Priests

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On S. Ignatius of Antioch and S. Anthony the Great

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On Inwardly Digesting Christ through Scripture

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On Mary, Joseph, and Emmanuel

On this Fifth Day of Christmas, let us reflect on certain passages of our Gospel account. Firstly, we notice that Saint Matthew wishes, in our Gospel account, to speak of Mary. He makes clear what a difference there was between her child-bearing and that of the rest of the genealogy of Jesus. The rest brought forth by the customary joining of male and female; Jesus, however, seeing that He was Son of God, was to be born into the world by a virgin. It was entirely fitting that when God wished to become a human being, for the sake of human beings, He be born of none other than a Virgin. When it happens that the Virgin bears a child, she bears no other son than one who is God.
Also Saint Matt...

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On Embracing the Divinity of the Christ Child

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On Embracing the Divinity of the Christ Child

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To acknowledge and celebrate in our Divine Liturgy the birth of time of the Mediator between God the Father and human beings, the man Jesus Christ, born of woman, born of Mary under the Law, we are now drawn to reflect upon the words of the blessed evangelist John concerning the eternity of the Word, that is, concerning the eternity of Christ’s divinity, in which He remained always equal to the...

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On the Coming Emmanuel

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The eyes of all wait upon Jesus Christ. Indeed, the eyes of the world, the whole world, wait upon Jesus Christ. For in but a few short days comes the festival of our redemption, the festival of the redemption of the whole world: the whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to consecrate the world by His most loving presence, having been conce...

On Origen, Saint Basil the Great, and Saint Gregory Nazianzus

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On Origen, Saint Basil the Great, and Saint Gregory Nazianzus

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In the audio above is the third lecture of the Advent Study Series that I am doing at my parish. The series is called “Foundations of the Church: Introducing the Church Fathers.” This lecture follows on from the overall introduction to the Church Fathers (frmcdallman.substack.com/p/who-and-what-are-the-church-fathers) in my first lecture, as well as the second lecture on Ss Ignatius of Antioch ...

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On Christ Known through Priests

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Jesus Christ is our King. Of that we must never have any doubt. Things in the world we can doubt, we can question, we can critique. Things of the world can, as kids today say, be “sus.” (That is shorthand for “suspect.”) Yet of Christ, none of this applies. He is our King, He is our Saviour, He is the Coming One. He is ever seeking to come to us, every day. This is why He came to visit us in gr...

On S. Ignatius of Antioch and S. Anthony the Great

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On S. Ignatius of Antioch and S. Anthony the Great

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In the audio above is the audio from the second lecture of the Advent Study Series that I am doing at my parish. The series is called “Foundations of the Church: Introducing the Church Fathers.” This lecture follows on from the overall introduction to the Church Fathers in my first lecture, which you can find here (frmcdallman.substack.com/p/who-and-what-are-the-church-fathers) . The second lec...

On Inwardly Digesting Christ through Scripture

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On Inwardly Digesting Christ through Scripture

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I concluded my preaching for the First Sunday of Advent with these words: “Recognizing that Christ is always the Coming One is the basis of life in Christ’s Kingdom, and thus the basis of Kingdom culture.” How is He the Coming One? In Advent we especially recognize that Christ is the Coming One by means of Scripture and by means of Sacrament. The knowledge that He is the Coming One through Scri...

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Who and What are the Church Fathers?

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In the audio above is the audio from the first lecture of the Advent Study Series I am doing at my parish. The series is called “Foundations of the Faith: Introducing the Church Fathers.” In the lecture I reference the icon above, which is of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which happened in AD 325. In the part of the talk not included in the audio above, I went through m...

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On Christ Entering Us, His Temple

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As is mentioned in the Service Bulletin and described in more length in the December Parish Journal, starting today with the First Sunday of Advent we are using the traditional one-year lectionary for the Scripture readings for Sundays and Holy Days throughout the year, and doing so with the permission of Bishop Justin Holcomb, which is required. We are one of five parishes in our diocese doing...

On Being Stirred Up into Kingdom Culture

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On Being Stirred Up into Kingdom Culture

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I want to bring together threads that have occupied my preaching these last Sundays. These threads included reflections on the Holy Spirit, the image of our parish as a garden, our dedication of this holy house and ourselves with the clear and singular purpose of giving God the love which He is owed, and having a living faith. I spoke of how the Holy Spirit is the Lord and giver of Life: the gi...

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Introducing "Kingdom Culture"

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Our gospel story gives us again the beautiful, simple, and touching story of the poor widow. And it is held up in our lectionary in our stewardship season, as it is reaching its conclusion. And that is so very fitting. Because Christian stewardship, for as much as I have said about it in my recent preaching, really is as simple as the poor widow. Just as she put in everything she had, her whole...

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Evenings with Bede: S2, Ep. 18

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Evenings With Bede is a homily podcast. The episodes are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. SEASON TWO is devoted to understanding the Song of Songs with the Venerable S. Bede as teacher, and yours truly as interpreter. We will go verse by verse through the entirety of the Song of Songs. The format is a short pass...

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On the Saints as All-Star Christians

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In professional sports there are all-star games. This is certainly true of professional baseball, professional basketball, professional hockey, and professional football (although football calls theirs the “pro-bowl” and basically no one pays any attention to it). To arrive at the group of players in these sports that participate in the all-star game involves balloting, they are elected. What a...

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On Receiving Our Sight

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“And Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’ And the blind man said to Him, ‘Rabbi, let me recover my sight.’” What could sight be for us, except the capacity to discern what is holy from what is unholy? As we heard from the Epistle to the Hebrews, having the “faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.” To distinguish what is of the Holy Spirit from that which ...