Psalms LXX 125-127 (MT 126-128); Col 1:9-14; Eph 4:4-8; 1 Cor 15:43. As we reach this third grouping of steps in the Songs (and Psalms) of Ascent, we move out of the darkness and into the light. Psalms 125-127 (MT 126-128) still remember exile, but primarily celebrate the generosity of God, who has rescued, andContinue reading “Light from the Psalter 18: The Generous God”
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A blast from the past!
I have just retrieved from you-tube a series of four short talks, entitled The Trinity Today: God’s Mystery Unveiled For Us, recorded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 2004, by the Anglican Prayerbook Society. Though Anglican at the time (I became Orthodox about 5 years later), I think all creedal Christians, including Orthodox, will find these congenial.Continue reading “A blast from the past!”
Icons and Incarnation: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Some of you are old enough, like me, to remember the Campbell’s soup advertisement, Soup and Sandwich—you can’t have one without the other. Of course, it was based upon “Love and Marriage,” a Frank Sinatra hit from the 50s, which reflects a time when general Christian morals still were making their mark on our society. Continue reading “Icons and Incarnation: You Can’t Have One Without the Other”
Light from the Psalter 17: The Step of Safety, Sanctification, and the Holy Spirit
Psalms LXX 122-124 (MT 123-125); Eph. 6:10-17; 2 Peter 3:9; Romans 8:26-27 On our pilgrimage to the holy abode of God, as we prepare during Matins for the Divine Liturgy, we come to the second step of the climbing songs, based on Psalms 122-4 (MT 123-5). Like the Jewish pilgrims to Jerusalem of old, weContinue reading “Light from the Psalter 17: The Step of Safety, Sanctification, and the Holy Spirit”
Light from the Psalter 16: Ascending to God
Psalms LXX 119-133 (MT 120-134); Hebrews 12:18-29 Orthros is full of snippets of psalms, joined to various hymns and responses. The most well-known may be the “Songs of Ascent” (anabathmoi) that are composed on the foundation of Psalms 119-133 (in the Hebrew 120-134). These fifteen psalms, called “psalms of ascent” in the Psalter, were traditionallyContinue reading “Light from the Psalter 16: Ascending to God”
For anyone in the Norfolk area! (St. Basil is in Hampton)
New Article on the New Creation in Scripture and Tradition
Friends may be interested in reading this article which appears in the St Andrews online Encyclopaedia of Theology. In it I speak of the New Creation in terms of what is “good,” what is “new,” and what is “beautiful,” and try to find a way through the debate between anticipating the resurrection and the conceptContinue reading “New Article on the New Creation in Scripture and Tradition”
Light from the Psalter 15: Mercy in the Morning
Psalm 142 (143 MT); Romans 4:8; Philippian 3:12; 2 Samuel/2 Kingdoms 15-18, Rev 20:11, Luke 21:17-18 We come to the last of the six censing Psalms of Orthros. Psalm 142 (MT 143) retains the petitionary flavor of the other Psalms, but looks forward to the light—to deliverance from enemies, to being lifted from the pit,Continue reading “Light from the Psalter 15: Mercy in the Morning”
Peacock Party and Book Launch
Anyone within kicking distance of Pittsburgh is invited to a book launch for my recent children’s book Down the Valley, a novel of faith, family, and fantasy designed for children ages 8 through 15 and their parents. The party will include “visiting” the saints who are featured in this novel, hearing a little about theirContinue reading “Peacock Party and Book Launch”
Light from the Psalter 14: Bless the Lord, O My Soul!
Psalm 102 (LXX)/ 103 (MT), Hebrews 7:7, Colossians 1:12-13, James 2:13 Someone said to me this week, “I read that it is a mark of intelligence to talk to yourself.” I’m not sure that I concur, but it was certainly a habit of mine as an only child, and I still engage in it fromContinue reading “Light from the Psalter 14: Bless the Lord, O My Soul!”
Edith M. Humphrey 