Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔

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Sweat, tears, & books (not necessarily in that order) • Music, memoir, & pilgrimage • Christian monastic lit., Origenian tradition, Maximus the Confessor, & the Philokalia • I am a macrocosm scottdhendricks.wordpress.com orthodoxphilokalia.wordpress.com

Actual photo of an empty theater
Photo of a book: _A Patristic Greek Lexicon: with addenda et corrigenda_ Edited by G.W.H. Lampe, D.D.
Morning - Bible One Psalter stasis, lectionary, personal bible reading Afternoon - Theology/Philosophy A passage from one author: Karl Barth, Stănilode (Dogmatics) •~OR~• Plato (by dialogue), Plotinus (by "tractate"), Aristotle (by "chapters") Evening - Patristics Little consecutive passages from: Desert Fathers, Philokalia, Maximus, Isaac the Syrian; a longer section of one church father Night One Psalter stasis, Poetry
Morning - Bible Lectionary, One Psalter stasis, devotional reading Afternoon - Patristics Desert Fathers, Philokalia, Maximus, Isaac the Syrian, Longer sections of one text Evening - Theology -/or/— Philosophy Karl Barth, Stăniloae (Dogmatics) •~OR~• Plato (by dialogue), Plotinus (by "tractate"), Aristotle (by "chapters") Night One Psalter stasis, Poetry
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113. For beginners prayer is like a joyous fire kindled in the heart; for the perfect it is like a vigorous sweet-scented light. Or again, prayer is the preaching of the Apostles, an action of faith or, rather, faith itself, 'that makes real for us the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1 ), active love, angelic impulse, the power of the bodiless spirits, their work and delight, the Gospel of God, the heart's assurance, hope of salvation, a sign of purity, a token of holiness, knowledge of God, baptism made manifest, purification in the water of regeneration, a pledge of the Holy Spirit, the exultation of Jesus, the soul's delight, God's mercy, a sign of reconciliation, the seal of Christ, a ray of the noetic sun, the heart's dawn-star, the confirmation of the Christian faith, the disclosure of reconciliation with God, God's grace, God's wisdom or, rather, the origin of true and absolute Wisdom; the revelation of God, the work of monks, the life of hesychasts, the source of stillness, and expression of the angelic state. Why say more? Prayer is God, who accomplishes everything in everyone (cf. 1 Cor. 12:6), for there is a single action of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, activating all things through Christ Jesus. St. Gregory of Sinai The Philokalia: the complete text, volume four. Trans. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware. London: 1995. Pp 237-238.
Billboard spoof that reads, “Where are you going — heaven or Ohio?”
A bookshelf full of all available volumes from Fathers of the Church series by Catholic University of America Press, as of 2019.
A screenshot of the first few lines of Genesis in three languages: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
A stack of seven books on the left of the picture:
A brown, cardboard box with a plastic handle, designed to contain and carry reams of paper — with lots of toddler toys in the background.
Photo of an Eastern Orthodox Church nave adorned with rich iconography, flowers, and a baptismal font prepared for a child’s baptism.
144. Abba Joseph related that Abba Isaac said, 'I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and I was on terms of great freedom of speech with him, I prostrated myself before him and begged him, saying, "Tell me where you were." He was forced to answer and he said, "My thought was with Saint Mary, the Mother of God, as she wept by the cross of the Saviour. I wish I could always weep like that."' Benedicta Ward, trans., The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: the alphabetical collection (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1975), p.187.
84. According to the text, 'We are the body of Christ and each of us is one of its members' (cf. i Cor. 12: 27), we are said to be the body of Christ. We do not become this body through the loss of our own bodies; nor again because Christ's body passes into us hypostatically or is divided into members; but rather because we conform to the likeness of the Lord's flesh by shaking off the corruption of sin. For just as Christ in His manhood was sinless by nature both flesh and in soul, so we too who believe in Him, and have clothed ourselves in Him through the Spirit, can be without sin in Him if we so choose.