Friends... The CFP for the #AARSBL meetings in Denver will close tomorrow evening at midnight.
Not too late to submit your proposal for the Development in Early Christian Theology section... We'd love to see your interactions with early Christian use of subtle scriptural figures!
Prayer is the seed of gentleness and the absence of anger.
βAbba Nilus (2)
(*Sayings of the Desert Fathers*, trans. B. Ward)
Happy Bird on the Egg day to all who celebrate!
#Thanksgiving
#BigGreenEgg
βHe who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.β
βSt. Bernard of Clairvaux
Itβs publication day! I decided 11 years ago I wanted to do this project and began working on it eight years ago, so itβs gratifying to reach this point. Thanks to all who helped us bring it to fruition.
We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
A prayer to center on dysregulating days:
Calm me, O Lord (inhale)
as You stilled the storm (exhale)
Still me, O Lord (inhale)
keep me from harm (exhale)
Let all the tumult (inhale)
within me cease (exhale)
Enfold me, Lord (inhale)
in Your peace (exhale)
(an ancient Celtic prayer)
Show us how to walk this day in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.
Lord, come to our aid.
#Lauds
"Seek after peace, and pursue it."
βSt. Benedict of Nursia, RB prol. 17
"Seek after peace, and pursue it."
βSt. Benedict of Nursia, RB prol. 17
a reflection on dying by Vincent McNabb O.P, written toward the end of his life.
I am delighted to announce that I have received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in TΓΌbingen to produce an edition of The Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans and to study its 20th c. reception, including a German translation from the Third Reich.
"Becoming God's friend is the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This, as I have said, is the perfection of life."
βGregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses, II.320)
Surrexit Christus!
The Nominating Committee of the North American Patristics Society is still accepting nominations for positions on the board and other committees. Help shape the future of our society! Self-nominations welcome! #NAPS2025
The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.
βSt. Bernard of Clairvaux
A mosaic of an owl, with part of the black and white corner of the mosaic border above him. The owl is a mess. He honestly looks like he hasn't slept for days.
We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl.
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He preferred to be thus loved and be the least of all, or even to be among the damned, than to be without that love and be among the great and honoured.β
βHomily of St. John Chrysostom
(2/2)
βThe most important thing of all to [Paul] was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love, he considered himself happier than anyone else; were he without it, it would be no satisfaction to be the friend of principalities and powers.
(1/2)
I have been appropriately blessed. Much obliged! And also now hungry.
This December journal entry of Thomas Merton makes me wonder what kind of space he was in during Advent heading into Christmas, reflecting on humility.
This was, is, and always will beβ¦the way of Jesus.
New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024).
https://buff.ly/3BUEKaO
On #Christmas, we see Christ as an infant. Let us grow up with him.
βAugustine, Sermon 196.3
A miniature of Luke next to the opening of his gospel, in one of the AbbΔ GarimΔ gospel books, collection of EndΔ AbbΔ GarimΔ Monastery, Tigray, Ethiopia.
A miniature of Luke next to the opening of his gospel, in one of the AbbΔ GarimΔ gospel books, collection of EndΔ AbbΔ GarimΔ Monastery, Tigray, Ethiopia. This book is one of the earliest surviving illuminated Christian manuscripts.
View in Reading Room (AG 00002): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/132897
A folio in a 16th-century gospel book (LHMU 00156) in the collection of the L'viv Historical Museum in L'viv, Ukraine.
A folio in a 16th-century gospel book (LHMU 00156) in the collection of the L'viv Historical Museum in L'viv, Ukraine.
Folios in a 16th-century gospel book (LHMU 00156) in the collection of the L'viv Historical Museum in L'viv, Ukraine.
The collection (project code LHMU) is fully digitized and cataloged in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/146632
Daughters dancing to the parade. Bird cooking beautifully.
Happy Thanksgiving, yβall!
#Thanksgiving
And thatβs a wrap for #sblaar24. Great to see old friends and make new ones. See you in Boston for #aarsbl25.
You stay classy, San Diego.
So excited I get to see this! @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.bl.uk/whats-on/med...
#sblaar24 For alumni, colleagues and friends, the Durham University reception will be on Saturday 23rd, 7-9pm, at the Horton Grand Hotel, 311 Island Avenue, room Regal A&B.
Iβm sure there may be good reasons not to do so, but I would not mind this view for #sblaar every single year.
