Orthodox Christian deacon, long-ago exvangelical. Husband, dad, cat dad. #Gardening, #hiking, #cooking, #cocktails, #ClassicalMusic. Central #NorthCarolina, USA. Occasionally a choral music arranger/composer. English/Spanish bilingual; dabbles in Greek, Church Slavonic; faint smatterings of various other languages.
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Last Notes npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson I just got the news that deacon.social is shutting down three months from today. This makes me sad, since it is hard to find corners of the Fediverse where religious thought is not only tolerated but even embraced. I have really enjoyed the spirit of openness I’ve found here. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson At an Orthodox wedding, the bride and groom are crowned, both as king and queen of the new household and as martyrs; for they must each sacrifice themselves daily for the other, as Christ sacrificed himself for the Church. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…zyt0 Likewise 21, which is well below half my actual age. I suppose it just means I’m immature. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Today my 16yo and I climbed up and down Warwick Castle. We then met up with my brother and his family, and four of us climbed the tiny narrow spiral staircase to the top of the tower of St. Mary’s church. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…zyt0 I understand where your childhood minister is coming from. Ascension is when a physical human body sat at the right hand of the Father. In a way you could say that Annunciation, Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost are all facets of the one single feast of the Plan of Salvation. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…emk6 You mean Leroy Anderson’s “The Typewriter”? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson (Sorry for the rash of posts one after another. I went to bed early, completely wiped out, but awoke shortly after midnight, and am still wide awake.) npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…kwuz If I become that person, you’ll tell me, right? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson I’m standing in the gravel lot the local Baptists let my parish use for overflow parking, next to the pond, and all the frogs are letting it be known that it’s springtime. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…t05x Up until the day I had a motherboard die on me, my home server was a rather old tower with an Athlon XP processor, running headless Gentoo and a LAMP stack. Alas, at the time, home finances were extremely tight, and there was no budget for a replacement. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…eqfv but you’d hardly say that God “uploaded” the Law. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…hhaq Orthodox tradition says that Simon “the Cananean” was the bridegroom at the wedding at Cana. Is there a RC tradition surrounding this? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson If, at times, the dogmas of the Faith seem like hard food, you should first endeavor to fulfill the moral dogmas of Christianity; then the understanding of the dogmas of the Faith will be revealed to you. The inquisitive examination of higher things, without effort regarding the improvement of your life, does not bring any benefit. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…3frg @nprofile…yvm3 When I post translated Byzantine hymn texts here on Fedi, I often change things like “the race of man” to “the human race,” not because I believe that one is a truer translation of “το γένος των ανθρώπων” than the other, but because I don't want people to miss the beauty of the hymns because they are stumbling over a needlessly gendered word. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…3frg @nprofile…jqam The Scriptures refer to the Father exclusively as the Father — Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic are all highly gendered languages. But the Godhead is not gendered in the sense that it has genitals. The Son is definitely the Son, because he not only took on male human flesh, but also seated that male human flesh at the right hand of the Father for all eternity. But the Father and the Spirit transcend gender. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…jqam @nprofile…3frg In early Syriac religious poetry, the Holy Spirit was referred to in the feminine, but that is because the word for "spirit," ruaḥ, is a feminine noun. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…hlhr I’ve read some St. Basil, but not that one. Of course, if condemnation of the concentration of wealth is your bag, you can’t go wrong with St. John Chrysostom’s sermons. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson The latter part of one of the pre-communion prayers, by St. Basil the Great. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…nmwl npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…6dq2 @nprofile…3frg Same here. It’s not that I’m not interested; I’m overextended. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson I’m curious to see how many points of view are represented here in answer to the following question: npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…msv9 Jelly King appears to be a UK + Commonwealth variety. As an American, I searched in vain for a Jelly King tree for sale. I have a Dolgo crabapple tree on order now. A friend of mine grows Dolgo in his apple orchard nearby, and gave me a jar of the jelly. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Just in case you feel like the hymnographers were never addressing you where you really are… npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…2ygq Nice! In Greek "forever" is literally "from the ages" or "to all the ages" (depending on when it is past-looking or future-looking forever). npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson The patristic tendency to portray Pentecost as the undoing of Babel seems to imply that the working of the Holy Spirit is the antidote to militant nationalism. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…rt6w @nprofile…y2ay Is this the same as the "Other Servers" tab on the web interface? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…7wld I forget who it was (maybe one of the fathers of the Egyptian desert?) who said, regarding fasting and keeping vigil without prayer, that the demons too neither sleep nor eat, and that without prayer one keeps the fast of the demons. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…7wld This only raises new questions about what Love is, doesn’t it? If God is love, love must be more enormous than we can imagine. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Today is the Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost, marking the midpoint between Easter and Pentecost. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…h9qy Funny how nobody's using ReiserFS anymore, despite all the fanboys crowing about its superiority at the time of Hans's arrest. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…h9qy And religious uniform in general, I'd guess. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Speaking of the doors being thrown open wide... npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson The iconostasis doors were thrown open at the beginning of Paschal Matins, and they remain open for all of Bright Week, reminding us that the Resurrection has opened for us again the gates of the paradise of Eden. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson I wonder how many days it will take for my sleep cycle to return to something vaguely resembling normal. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Posted by a priest friend on Facebook, and shamelessly stolen: npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson This is the communion bread that is used in the Orthodox Church (note that it is leavened; Jesus Christ himself is the leaven that had been omitted from the first Passover). The inscription IC XC NIKA means “Jesus Christ conquers.” npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…6g6u I have always been under the impression that it is not a tradition anywhere in Western Christianity to celebrate the raising of Lazarus on the eve of Palm Sunday. If anyone would know, I figure it would be you. What say you? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…sldm Declined languages can eliminate some or all prepositions, though, making for greater efficiency, and also making word order much less important. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…h9qy Those exist. They are called tapped coils. Not too many pickup manufacturers bother, because there is little demand. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson "Lord, save us from fools, somehow!" npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…fae6 All Christians should live as exiles in this world. Just ran across this fantastic article: https://thechristianexile.com/2019/01/01/how-the-early-church-approached-politics/ npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…h9qy The PMs are basically garden-variety evangelicals with a special emphasis on John Wesley’s teachings. They disapprove of the liturgical vestiges that the UMC has retained. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…h9qy I grew up in a part of Latin America where the Primitive Methodists had a significant presence. What would you say is the difference between Free Methodists and Primitive Methodists? npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson I have gotten a blessing to stay home from the Nativity vigil tonight to take care of my sick family. I am feeling pretty close to burnout. My house is a trash heap, the Christmas tree never got decorated, and presents are not yet wrapped. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson “Let no one say, ‘I have committed many sins; there can be no forgiveness for me.’ He who says this does not know that God is the God of the penitent.” npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…328c This one's got to be in the running. Apologies for injecting politics into anyone's lighthearted timeline. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson #CatsOfMastodon npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson The Tree of Jesse, showing the righteous ones from the Old Testament who either prophesied or prefigured the Virgin Birth. Clockwise from lower left: David, Zechariah, Gideon, Jeremiah, Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Aaron, Joel, Jacob, Daniel, Solomon. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @nprofile…s8ac Entirely uninterested in crypto. Thanks though. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson Today we remember three great saints: npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @npub1mmp…c7ad It is impossible as a translator to approach a text without an agenda. If you think you are doing so, you just aren’t aware of your agenda yet. 😄 npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson @npub1mmp…c7ad Just for curiosity’s sake I am currently reading the book of 1 Enoch. This piece of Jewish apocalyptic literature almost certainly dates from a few centuries B.C. There was some debate in the early Christian centuries whether to include it in the canon of Scripture. While it is certainly pseudepigraphal, it was sufficiently influential that the epistle of Jude quotes it. A lot of it has to do with angelology. npub1nh8vf46mn9je7w8urepc6a5w7epk8z503edu7cjxmpq9ffk5e6cscgjcc2 Daniel Johnson We are facing dark times, but you will be the light in the darkness, the light of love. So I tell you: if you are silent, be silent for the sake of love. If you speak, speak for love. If you correct someone, correct them out of love. If you forgive, forgive for love. May there always be a root of love in you, because only from this root good can grow.
