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Recommended podcast: The Mount Thabor Academy
Orthodox patristic lectures from Dr. Christopher Veniamin
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The Lenten Octave
The Fast of Weeks before the Feast of Weeks

March 2024

The Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Triumph of Orthodoxy, part 2
Yes, they form an octave, but there’s also a strictly chiastic way of looking at it
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The Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Triumph of Orthodoxy, part 1
Yes, they form an octave...
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The Gospel of Mark takes the sabbath super literally
An approach to the octave shape used also in Bright Week
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February 2024

Chiasmus as camera lens for the infinite
Thoughts on a life spent in difficulty communicating, as illustrated by some adolescent art photography
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Welcome to the Octateuch
To the five Books of Moses are added Joshua, Judges, and Ruth
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In the intermediate state of the soul after death, we’ll have no eyelids to close
A chiastic meditation on triadic transformation
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January 2024

The Beatitudes as octave and as Octoechos
A multivalent method for seeing the overly familiar with fresh eyes
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Reuniting time and eternity via the Christian week as revealed in the Octoechos
Fitting the symbolism of a five-day work week and a triadic weekend into a seven-day cycle
What’s the earliest octave in the text of the Bible?
Do musical scales have anything to do with it? What about decads? And is the Apocalypse of Weeks in 1 Enoch of any relevance?
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The Christmas octave
A five-day forefeast preceding a three-day feast... = a Christmas octave
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