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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Why Can’t I Be Still?


Reference materials for this episode: 

Lao Tsu
- Tao Te Ching
- - poem 16

Cai Song Fang
- Warriors of Stillness
- - author’s intro

Philokalia vol 1
 - Evagrios the Solitary
- - pg 40-41
- - - watchdog passage
 - St Mark the Ascetic
 - - pg 128
 - - - sayings 29-31
 - St John Cassian
 - - pg 91
 - - - first paragraph “On Self Esteem”

St Gregory Palamas
 - “On the Entry into the Holy of Holies II”
St Sophrony of Essex
 - “His Life is Mine”
 - - quote regarding Jesus’ peace


Scripture citations for this episode:

Genesis 4, 15
1 Kingdoms/1 Kings 19
Psalm 22/23, 45/46
Matthew 5 
Luke 2 
John 14, 16, 20
Revelation 1 
Acts 9 

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How do I become a gardener?

Reference materials for this episode: 
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Volume 59) - pg 85-86 &125-126
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liturgical Press; Revised edition (January 1, 1984)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0879079592
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0879079598

Scripture citations for this episode:
Genesis 1:28-31
Ezekiel 37:1-10
John 20:11-16

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A brief discussion on the categories of knowledge, how the life of the way of faithfulness to Christ prioritizes them, how this is in stark distinction to our culture, & why the examination of this question is at the heart of the restructuring of this podcast for Season Six. 
This is, essentially, episode 000 as our first true conversational episode will be our true kick-off of the new format in the new season. 

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