Dominus Illuminatio Mea

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@OrthodoxEthos So. . . I just heard the East has a King Arthur too??? Sick

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@DrMichaelLBrown Pentecostal > generic nondenom > Holy Orthodoxy

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@RealMattFradd You gotta have Fr. Steven DeYoung on your show after the Tucker Carlson interview!! He’s so good!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@KingMic92357513 This isn’t a furry icon. There are traditional icons of St. Christopher as the “dog-headed” Saint. It’s a cool story, you should look it up.

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@BBCNews @TuckerCarlson a monologue by you on this would be epic….could be a whole Alp commercial too!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@richardrohlin Best Christmas tidings ever!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@richardrohlin Congratulations! Can’t wait to see what 2026 holds for you!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@richardrohlin I don’t understand

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@richardrohlin Will yall make it to Walsingham?

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@jaydyer Absolutely

[Jonathan Pageau @PageauJonathan]

Charlie Kirk's Assassination: We have gone beyond the pale (full video)

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@ElijahSchaffer @FrLillie I’ve followed your work since the riots in 2020. I appreciate your struggle for truth.

Here’s my advice: Consider it a huge blessing to become Orthodox while they’re young. They will grow up only knowing Orthodoxy! Mine were 10 & 12, I wish we made it when they were younger!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@calvinrobinson Fr. the only thing better would be to move to Texas and do exactly that here!

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@realDonaldTrump anything you can do to help???

https://t.co/LFn6xkCZHZ

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@StefanMolyneux Christian here. All the best to you going forward.

Impressed further still you took note of Christian support AND are happy to mention it publicly when you could have noticed and just moved on.

God bless you

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@ThePolemikOne - sacraments
- apostolic succession
- embodied worship
- historicity

[Dominus Illuminatio Mea @Number1Goober]

@Tammy1Peterson Works perfectly well in the Orthodox church

[seraphim (richard) rohlin @richardrohlin]

Today we served a beautiful hierarchical Liturgy with Bishop Gerasim for the great feast of Theophany.

This is one of the ancient Church's great feasts of light, along with The Nativity (Christmas) and the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas, aka Groundhog Day). After Easter, it's the most ancient of the Great Feasts, with the practice of keeping vigil all night before the feast day dating back at least to 140 AD. Alas, it's little known or celebrated in modern times outside of Orthodox and Catholic circles.

The Byzantine hymnography and iconography for this feast yields some rich examples of the traditional understanding of the feast in reference to ancient paganism, Old Testament typology, and the use of paradox which seems to be a defining note of Eastern Rite hymnography.

Consider this Doxastichon (a special kind of hymn sung between the "Glory to the Father... Both now and ever..." following the chanting of Psalm 129 (LXX) during Vespers) of the Forefeast of Theophany:

Make ready, O river Jordan: for behold, Christ our God draws near to be baptized by John, that He may crush with His divinity the invisible heads of the dragons in thy waters. Rejoice, O wilderness of Jordan; dance with gladness, O ye mountains. For the eternal Life hath come to call back Adam. O voice that criest in the wilderness, O John the Forerunner, cry out: 'Prepare ye the ways of the Lord, make his paths straight.'

The reference here to "dragons in thy waters" might seem curious to modern ears, and downright puzzling to anyone who goes to any of the four Gospel accounts of Christ's baptism looking for any dragons in the story. This is not a scriptural reference, but rather a memory the Church's tradition preserved, through her hymns and iconography, until its source was recently discovered by modern archaeologists. As Fr. Stephen De Young points out, this reference to dragons or monsters in the water (present in almost all of the icons of the feast as well) refers to the ancient Semitic sea and river gods Yam and Nahar, whose subjugation to YHWH is an important part of both the Exodus narrative, but also to much of the later Hebrew prophetic works (see Isaiah 27). The Hebrew scriptures presented a direct challenge to the sacred stories of rival religions in the Levant (such as the Baal Epic), and for centuries before the modern rediscovery of Ugarit and the Baal Cycle, that challenge continues to inform the liturgical hymns and iconography of this feast.

[Sean Berube @SeanBerube4]

C.S. Lewis was an atheist for 30 years

Finally, one conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien changed his mind

So what did Tolkien say?

Here’s what they discussed, and how it led to the conversion of the 20th century’s greatest theologian… 🧵