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  • Handle Me and See

    Flesh, Fire, and the True Holy of Holies — A Reflection for Second Sunday of Great Lent (St. Gregory Palamas) on Luke 24:36–53 and Hebrews 7:26–8:2 They were midway through a sentence when He stood among them. No knock, no threshold crossed in the ordinary way—just sudden presence, and the old greeting: Peace be unto…

  • The Roof Torn Open, the Heavens Folded Shut

    Paralysis and the Unchanging Hand — A Reflection for Mark 2:1-12 and Hebrews 1:10–2:3 There is a man who cannot move. He has not been able to move, perhaps, for years—locked inside a body that will not answer the mind’s simplest bidding. And there is a God who cannot change. He laid the foundations of…

  • Ten Men Seize the Hem of Your Garment

    When Fasting Becomes Feast — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Zechariah 8:7-17 and Zechariah 8:19-23 The Church, in her ancient cunning, sets the Last Judgment before your eyes on Meatfare Sunday—When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him (Matthew 25:31)—and then, on the…

  • The Green Wood and the Dry

    When the Veil Tears and the Feast Begins — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Jude 1:11–25 and Luke 23:2–34, 44–56 The Church, in her severe and luminous wisdom, places the Crucifixion before us now—not in Holy Week’s fullness but here, at the threshold of the fast, where meat is relinquished and the…

  • Rend the Heart and the Mountains Bleed Wine

    The Torn Veil of the Self — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Joel 2:12-26 and Joel 3:12-21 The Church stands at the threshold of the Fast, and Joel’s voice tears through the centuries like the trumpet he himself demands be blown in Zion. Two readings from a single prophet, set on the…

  • The Gaze That Burns and Does Not Consume

    Kiss, Denial, and the Flesh That Remembers — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Jude 1:1–10 and Luke 22:39–23:1 You have heard the sentence read: When I was hungry, you gave me no meat. The Church, with her ancient cunning, sets that judgment before you at the very threshold of the fast—before you…

  • The Stones Remember What the Striving Forget

    Bread, Betrayal, and the Grammar of Servant-Kingship — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on 3 John 1:1–15 and Luke 19:29–40, 22:7–39 There is a strife among them. Even now—the bread still warm, the cup still wet on their lips, the words This is my body which is given for you still hanging in…

  • The Flesh We Keep and the Flesh We Yield

    On Power Laid Down and Tombs Broken Open — A Reflection for Meatfare Sunday (Sunday of the Last Judgment) on Mark 16:9–20 and 1 Corinthians 8:8–9:2 She came to them weeping-wet with news that could unmake the world, and they did not believe her. Mary Magdalene—from whom seven devils had been driven like wolves from…

  • The Voice That Wakes the Dead in Far Countries

    Death-Sleep, Homecoming, and the Hour That Now Is — A Reflection for Week of the Prodigal Son on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 and John 5:24-30 Consider the prodigal in the far country. He is not yet dead, and yet he is not alive. He feeds swine and feeds on husks, and some part of him—the deepest…

  • The Torn Veil and the Open Road

    Coming Home to Wounded Love — A Reflection for Week of the Prodigal Son on 2 John 1:1-13 and Mark 15:22-25, 33-41 The prodigal walks home rehearsing speeches. He has prepared his groveling, calibrated his contrition, calculated exactly how much shame to perform. But the father—scandalously, impossibly—runs. The dignity of patriarchs abandoned, robes gathered up…