Fr Benedict Andersen
@periarchon.bsky.social
Priest of the Great Church of Christ, Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and New Rome
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Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and New Rome
☦️🇺🇦🇵🇸
Very pleased to have received today this new icon of my patron saint by Aidan Hart.
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Very pleased to have received today this new icon of my patron saint by Aidan Hart.
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'St Knud's Church by the River in Odense. Autumn' by Dankvart Dreyer, c.1842. 🇩🇰
October 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
'St Knud's Church by the River in Odense. Autumn' by Dankvart Dreyer, c.1842. 🇩🇰
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Byzantine liturgy is not "Eastern," it is (if anything) Central or Central-Western. It is also, above all, every bit as universal and universally applicable, relatable and lovable as the Roman rite.
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Byzantine liturgy is not "Eastern," it is (if anything) Central or Central-Western. It is also, above all, every bit as universal and universally applicable, relatable and lovable as the Roman rite.
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"Patristic theology was practical, aiming at a Church that was poor and for the poor, recalling that the Gospel is proclaimed correctly only when it impels us to touch the flesh of the least among us, and warning that doctrinal rigor without mercy is empty talk."
(Pope Leo XIV)
(Pope Leo XIV)
October 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Patristic theology was practical, aiming at a Church that was poor and for the poor, recalling that the Gospel is proclaimed correctly only when it impels us to touch the flesh of the least among us, and warning that doctrinal rigor without mercy is empty talk."
(Pope Leo XIV)
(Pope Leo XIV)
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Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.
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A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
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Humility is too exalted a goal, but perhaps you could aim for the halfway house of gratitude. — Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
October 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Humility is too exalted a goal, but perhaps you could aim for the halfway house of gratitude. — Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
This letter from Abbot John Chapman OSB (+1933) remains one of the very best pieces of practical spiritual advice I’ve come across.
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This letter from Abbot John Chapman OSB (+1933) remains one of the very best pieces of practical spiritual advice I’ve come across.
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Hard to believe these self-taught pop apologetics grifters are still pumping out this bottom-of-the-barrel crap, as though the best scholars and hierarchs of all apostolic churches haven't already long agreed that any "ecumenism of return" is dead & gone and people's consciences should be left alone
Erick Ybarra (@ErickYbarra3)
Wesley Chambers (RC), co-founder of 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑚 (Substack), does everyone a favor here. What I could only do in 10 hours on the subject of the 4th-century schism of Antioch (aka the "Meletian" schis...
fixupx.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Hard to believe these self-taught pop apologetics grifters are still pumping out this bottom-of-the-barrel crap, as though the best scholars and hierarchs of all apostolic churches haven't already long agreed that any "ecumenism of return" is dead & gone and people's consciences should be left alone
Memory eternal to Georgette, who fled her homeland of Palestine as a toddler in 1948.
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Memory eternal to Georgette, who fled her homeland of Palestine as a toddler in 1948.
“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.” — J.H. Newman, Sermon 4, “The Usurpations of Reason”
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.” — J.H. Newman, Sermon 4, “The Usurpations of Reason”
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"If you do not see Christ in the face of the beggar outside the church doors, you will look for him in vain in the chalice."
(St. John Chrysostom)
(St. John Chrysostom)
September 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"If you do not see Christ in the face of the beggar outside the church doors, you will look for him in vain in the chalice."
(St. John Chrysostom)
(St. John Chrysostom)
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Our dog is doing physical therapy, and the photos they’re sending us make him look like a Far Side character.
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Our dog is doing physical therapy, and the photos they’re sending us make him look like a Far Side character.
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Broke (Esolen): Trads are like the Lost Cause (complimentary)
Woke (me): Trads are like the Lost Cause (derogatory)
Woke (me): Trads are like the Lost Cause (derogatory)
Latin Belongs in the Liturgy
COMMENTARY: Liturgical revival, as with any kind of revival, comes from recovering what has been forgotten.
www.ncregister.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Broke (Esolen): Trads are like the Lost Cause (complimentary)
Woke (me): Trads are like the Lost Cause (derogatory)
Woke (me): Trads are like the Lost Cause (derogatory)
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Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)
June 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)
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I guess when your whole business is called "Crisis" you gotta manufacture crises to keep the grift going
You'd think, though, that all the Latin Trads would champ at the bits to use a Latinate translation, rather than one that has (horribile dictu) Anglican cooties from the Coverdale and King James
You'd think, though, that all the Latin Trads would champ at the bits to use a Latinate translation, rather than one that has (horribile dictu) Anglican cooties from the Coverdale and King James
Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost?
In a frenzy to make themselves feel relevant, 60’s churchmen did violence to Church language, and with it our understanding. It may be time to revisit the prudence of them having “given up the Ghost.”
crisismagazine.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I guess when your whole business is called "Crisis" you gotta manufacture crises to keep the grift going
You'd think, though, that all the Latin Trads would champ at the bits to use a Latinate translation, rather than one that has (horribile dictu) Anglican cooties from the Coverdale and King James
You'd think, though, that all the Latin Trads would champ at the bits to use a Latinate translation, rather than one that has (horribile dictu) Anglican cooties from the Coverdale and King James
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The twin phenomena of the recently-concluded Francis pontificate and the still-ongoing Trump presidency have had an interesting effect on some of these actors like Barron. They're apocalyptic—in the literal sense of "unveiling." The thin veneers of faux-respectability and triangulation have come off
I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics.
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
June 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The twin phenomena of the recently-concluded Francis pontificate and the still-ongoing Trump presidency have had an interesting effect on some of these actors like Barron. They're apocalyptic—in the literal sense of "unveiling." The thin veneers of faux-respectability and triangulation have come off
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Fewer and fewer people buy the carefully curated "aw shucks, friends" persona. +RB is a Trumpist-JDist surrogate of the cloth, and so is much of American Catholicism's Thiel-funded media ecology.
And to think that he wants to institutionalize his poison into "a new order of priests..." God help us
And to think that he wants to institutionalize his poison into "a new order of priests..." God help us
June 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Fewer and fewer people buy the carefully curated "aw shucks, friends" persona. +RB is a Trumpist-JDist surrogate of the cloth, and so is much of American Catholicism's Thiel-funded media ecology.
And to think that he wants to institutionalize his poison into "a new order of priests..." God help us
And to think that he wants to institutionalize his poison into "a new order of priests..." God help us
Enthusiasm for the liturgy in Latin is too often inversely proportional to the actual amount of Latin language known or studied.
May 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Enthusiasm for the liturgy in Latin is too often inversely proportional to the actual amount of Latin language known or studied.
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Dedicating the text to Christ
Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405); The Four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome; 10th century (before 950); St. Gall; p.23
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405); The Four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome; 10th century (before 950); St. Gall; p.23
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
May 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Dedicating the text to Christ
Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405); The Four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome; 10th century (before 950); St. Gall; p.23
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405); The Four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome; 10th century (before 950); St. Gall; p.23
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Apparently not AI. AI is bleeding into reality now.
May 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Apparently not AI. AI is bleeding into reality now.
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Writer and painter in the margins
BnF MS Grec 923; Sacra Parallela (florilegium attributed to John of Damascus); second half of the 9th century; ff.99r, 328v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Grec 923; Sacra Parallela (florilegium attributed to John of Damascus); second half of the 9th century; ff.99r, 328v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Writer and painter in the margins
BnF MS Grec 923; Sacra Parallela (florilegium attributed to John of Damascus); second half of the 9th century; ff.99r, 328v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Grec 923; Sacra Parallela (florilegium attributed to John of Damascus); second half of the 9th century; ff.99r, 328v @gallicabnf.bsky.social