"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Our present actions have this effect because we are forming our hearts, our minds, our desires, our goals, and our dreams. In other words, what we let into our minds and hearts now will affect us moving forward. How we let the pressures and the insecurities and the fears of life play out will affect us, and they will begin to form us
– Sarah Swafford, Emotional Virtue
I’ve been meaning to post something by Sarah Kroger for a while now, so since yesterday was my sister’s wedding anniversary, I thought it was appropriate to post her rather adorable song, “I choose you”…
From the first it was a storm but we stood and braved the heavy skies, you and I
And we waited out the clouds, sought the sun until it met our eyes, you and I
We had a choice and so we made it
The vow is love, let nothing break it
Oh when love is a dream
And it’s all as it should be I will choose you
And when love is a storm
Through the fire or the flood
Still I choose you, I choose you…
So if stones and arrows fly love will be the shield that gets us by, you and I
For our dwelling will be light and our daily bread, He will provide for you and I
We lay our hearts upon the cornerstone
And hand in hand we walk till we get home
I will choose to love
I will choose to serve you
I will choose to follow when I do not know the way
I will choose your heart
I will choose to open mine
I will let you choose to love me every day
I’ve written before about the Catena Aurea, but I wanted to highlight a new phone app which I came across recently. The (admittedly rather unimaginatively titled) “Catena” app allows you to access Biblical commentary from the Apostolic Fathers.
There are a few bits of the interface which I find a bit clunky, but it’s a small gripe when compared to having Patristic commentary in your pocket for not just the Gospels, but for the entirety of the New Testament!
* I couldn’t think of a Return of the Jedi pun
As many of you know, I spent about a year and a half living in Seattle. During that time, I attended the Byzantine parish of St. John Crysostom.
There were many things I loved about that parish, but one of my favourites was the preaching of the pastor, Fr. Michael Mandelas. It is no surprise, therefore, that I was delighted to discover that some of Fr. Michael’s homilies are being recorded and uploaded to Soundcloud:
While this is great, personally I consume most of my audio through the Podcast app on my iPhone. Fortunately, Soundcloud exposes the RSS feed for their channels:
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:301561424/sounds.rss
Happy listening 🙂
The incongruity between what we claim to believe and the lives we live says everything the world needs to know. Any honest outsider can tell that we can’t possibly believe what we say we believe. Not only is our religion a fraud, but so are we Christians. At least, that’s what our actions often communicate to the world
– Messy & Foolish, Matthew Warner