Just want to wish all a merry Christmas! Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to all! Every promise of the Lord comes to realization in the Messiah.~ WGN
Christ Pantocrator
I am checking out this Byzantine mosaic—Christ Pantocrator—and my eyes focus on the Greek text on the page opposite to the Lord’s fingers. (The side with the fingers is Latin) Asides from the calligraphy employed, the capital Greek letters can be made out as follows...ΕΓΩ ΕΙΜΙ ΤΟ ΦΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ Ο ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΩΝ ΕΜΟΙ ΟΥ ΜΗ … Continue reading Christ Pantocrator
Thanksgiving 2014
These are some crazy tumultuous times indeed! What is there to give thanks for? Great convulsions of pain, sorrow, indignation, despair, and violence explode from the earth. Such things are what life in a sinful and fallen world show.Hope still emerges for us all. God never sleeps nor slumbers. The second advent of Jesus Christ … Continue reading Thanksgiving 2014
Glory
I listened to some Sixpence recently, and one of their seasonal tracks played—Angels We Have Heard on High—and the refrain Gloria in excelsis Deo keeps resounding in my head. But what is this “glory” that one can give or possess?We can say that in one sense glory is action world, conveying the idea of praise. … Continue reading Glory
Do You Mortify?
Hmm...really something to ponder....~ WGN