Love this installment! I am greatly enjoying the serial approach to this work, but I look forward to being able to read the completed poem as a whole. Great news about the book! Excited for you (and for me, because I've been (im) patiently waiting to read it!
Me too! It's been fun to write. I may need to pick up the pace though. I have a narrative poem I'd like to share leading up to and during the Christmas season!
Thank you, Derek. I appreciate the feedback! I'm starting to think the poem might be a little longer than I initially thought. I am also becoming more convinced St. George is helping me along the way.
And I'm sure he is. My understanding of saints and how they literally interact with us is shallow and I need to pray about that and learn more about it. From a Protestant background that understanding is still a bit foreign to me.
I will say, in my perusing of Orthodox literature, I am now able to understand how Orthodox and Catholics alike pray alongside saints and how it's not at all worship as I've been raised to believe. But the practical day-in and day-out aspects of that are not something I even know how to begin. But I guess that's what liturgy is for!
As is mine. I understand it to be part of the mystery of Eucharistic communion. Christ united heaven and earth together in Himself and we unite ourselves to Him through Holy Communion, as the saints did before us.
If you're interested in a deeper dive (from a more qualified source), I've heard good things about Fr. Stephen Freeman's book, "Everywhere Present." I've read his blog for a number of years and have found his discussion of the topic to be helpful.
Love this installment! I am greatly enjoying the serial approach to this work, but I look forward to being able to read the completed poem as a whole. Great news about the book! Excited for you (and for me, because I've been (im) patiently waiting to read it!
Me too! It's been fun to write. I may need to pick up the pace though. I have a narrative poem I'd like to share leading up to and during the Christmas season!
The tension you build in so few words is inspiring. Excellent. And exciting news about your book! I'll keep my eyes peeled for the upcoming events.
Thank you, Derek. I appreciate the feedback! I'm starting to think the poem might be a little longer than I initially thought. I am also becoming more convinced St. George is helping me along the way.
Oh that's powerful. I'll pray for you in that.
And I'm sure he is. My understanding of saints and how they literally interact with us is shallow and I need to pray about that and learn more about it. From a Protestant background that understanding is still a bit foreign to me.
I will say, in my perusing of Orthodox literature, I am now able to understand how Orthodox and Catholics alike pray alongside saints and how it's not at all worship as I've been raised to believe. But the practical day-in and day-out aspects of that are not something I even know how to begin. But I guess that's what liturgy is for!
As is mine. I understand it to be part of the mystery of Eucharistic communion. Christ united heaven and earth together in Himself and we unite ourselves to Him through Holy Communion, as the saints did before us.
If you're interested in a deeper dive (from a more qualified source), I've heard good things about Fr. Stephen Freeman's book, "Everywhere Present." I've read his blog for a number of years and have found his discussion of the topic to be helpful.
https://store.ancientfaith.com/everywhere-present-christianity-in-a-one-storey-universe/
Thanks Drew!