• How Can We Avoid Materialism This Christmas Season?
    Dec 27 2024

    How Can We Avoid Materialism This Christmas Season?


    Reference materials for this episode:
    https://orthodoxtao.com/notes/notes-on-lessons-11-20/ - specifically #11


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Genesis 1-3 - made to be different, devolve to be more like animals
    Exodus 32 - worshipping an animal, behaving like animals
    Isaiah 1 - born between an ox & and a donkey
    Habakkuk 3 - in the Greek, is known “between two living creatures”
    Matthew 4 - Jesus rejects temptation without deliberation
    Luke 2 - Nativity narrative has no reference to these animals but they are in all our icons
    - St Symeon can behold the uncreated glory of God in Jesus body because he has experienced it before
    John 2 - cleansing the temple isn’t Jesus throwing a temper tantrum, He is dispassionate
    John 11 - Jesus weeps at the cost to Mary, Martha & Lazarus despite knowing He will raise him
    Revelation 4, 21, 22 - The elders participate in & perceive the glory of God as true human persons


    YouTube: https://youtu.be/O2ZcPooh8Ic


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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Does Anybody Know What Christmas Is All About?
    Dec 13 2024

    Reference materials for this episode:
    - Google search “vintage santa coca cola advertisements”
    - Saint Demetrius Press website
    — Nick Papas icon of St Nicholas
    — Nick Papas icon of The Nativity
    - Google search Rothko Chapel Houston Texas


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Messianic fulfillment
    - Matthew 4:12-17
    — Isaiah 9
    - Luke 4: 16-22
    — Isaiah 61
    Luke 2: 13-15 - The equating of angels with the stars & the declaration of global peace
    Matthew 10:34-39 - not peace but a sword
    Revelation 19:11-16 - Christ as the conquering king

    Video version:
    https://youtu.be/iyDSOhbBKYQ


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • What Does Worship in Spirit & in Truth Look Like?
    Nov 27 2024

    Reference materials for this episode:
    https://orthodoxtao.com/notes/orthodox-worship-notes/


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    John 4:1-42 - the Samaritan woman at the well, worship in spirit & in truth

    Genesis 1-3 - Jesus walks in the Garden with Adam & Eve
    Genesis 3 - Sin results in toil & labor
    Genesis 4 - Cain is off the rails which is why God rejects his sacrifice
    - His ascetic activity tilling the ground has hardened his heart instead of softening
    Genesis 5-9 - Everything gets worse & worse until God unmakes the world
    - The ark is the vessel of salvation, many churches are designed to look like an inverted ark
    - Noah is given the same first commandment, “be fruitful & multiply”, be a gardener
    Genesis 11 - Babel is the archetypal false religion: transactional, tries to control “the god”
    - God scatters the nations to try to save them from this but they worship demons
    Ezekiel 1, Revelation 4 & 7, 21 & 22 - liturgical Sabbath worship

    Exodus 25-31 - The physicality of The Tabernacle
    - An Orthodox church has an alter, an ark of the covenant, a 7 branch candle stand
    - We have the table of bread, we have incense & oil


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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Why Does God Sit Down While He Rules Creation?
    Nov 13 2024

    Reference materials for this episode:
    https://www.catholic.com/tract/sabbath-or-sunday - Early church quotes about not Judaizing
    Hymns of The Lamentations Service
    Hymns of Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday
    Hymns of The Divine Liturgy

    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Genesis 2:1-3 - God’s day of rest
    Genesis 2:24 - Jesus as the bridegroom going to His bride
    Exodus 31:12-17 - sabbath as part of the Mosaic covenant
    Psalm 24/25 - lift up your heads o ye gates
    Psalm 109/110 - Sitting at the right hand & ruling in the midst of enemies
    Matthew 12 - the sign of Jonah
    Mark 2 - The Sabbath was made for man
    Acts 2 - Peter preaches the evangelion of Christ & the response is “what must we do”
    1 Peter 3:18-20 - Christ’s descent into Hades


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Why Is a Sacred Space Required for Worship?
    Oct 29 2024

    Reference materials for this episode:
    https://stmaryofegypt.org/files/library/life.htm - St Mary of Egypt


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    2 Samuel/2 Kingdoms 6:3-8 & 1 Chronicles 13:7-11 - Uzzah is killed for touching The Ark of The Covenant


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • What Does It Mean for Christians to Keep Sabbath?
    Oct 15 2024

    What Does It Mean for Christians to Keep Sabbath?

    Reference materials for this episode:
    St. Gregory Palamas
    The Homilies, edited and translated by Christopher Veniamin
    homily 17
    "Explaining the Mystery of the Sabbath and of the Lord's Day and Referring to the Gospel of New Sunday"
    (Waymart: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2009)


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Genesis 18 - Abraham’s hospitality
    Luke 10:38-42 - Mary & Martha
    Psalm 109/110 - Sitting at the right hand & ruling in the midst of enemies


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • How Can I Begin to Pray?
    Sep 20 2024

    How Can I Begin to Pray?


    Reference materials for this episode:

    The Art of Prayer
    The Inner Closet of the Heart
    St Dimitri of Rostov
    pg 43, 45

    St. Gregory of Sinai, “Instructions to Hesychasts”:

    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Psalm 140/141
    Matthew 6: 6-15
    Matthew 24: 36-44


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • How Can I Overcome My Blindness?
    Aug 17 2024

    How Can I Overcome My Blindness?


    Reference materials for this episode:

    St Gregory Palamas
    The Homilies
    Homily 34: On the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord & God & Savior Jesus Christ

    St Symeon The New, Theologian
    On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses, Vol 2
    Fifth Discourse

    Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent
    St Mark the Ascetic
    Sayings of the Egyptian Fathers
    St Hesychios
    St Thalassios the Lybian

    The Ladder of Divine Ascent
    St John Climacus

    The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection
    translation by Juan Mascaro


    Scripture citations for this episode:
    Psalm 101/102


    The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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    Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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    1 hr and 25 mins