Year Zero

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the Grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of the Priesthood [Holy Orders - Ordination]: * How grace sanctifies, illumines and enables a man to serve as shepherd and teacher; * How it empowers the priest to celebrate the other Mysteries. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the Grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Marriage: * How grace gives a certain dignity to the manner of the procreating of the human race; * How it makes matrimony honorable by comparing it to the union of Christ with the Church. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit t...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Holy Matrimony: * How grace, during marriage, lawfully sanctifies the physical bond of two human beings for the sake of the procreation of children; * How it unites, illumines and strengthens, through love, the union of two souls: husband and wife. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...

Dave joins me to discuss his rediscovery of faith, how it supports his work, and the wars America is involved in. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/christians-and-hezbollah-unite-against-epstein-empire/ar-AA1ZcAt2 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the Grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Holy Communion: * How grace makes the consecrated bread and wine the living sacrifice of Christ; * How it acts within the bread and wine in the same way as it acted within the body of the All-pure One [The Theotokos] at the time of the Incarnation of the Lord. This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Holy Communion: * How grace gives life to the bread and wine; * How It changes them into the Body and Blood of Christ. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Repentance and Confession: * How, when grace touches the heart of the penitent, the penitent sees all the ugliness of his sins and washes them away through tears; * How grace enters the penitent who has confessed, as joy enters into a sorrowful one, as hope enters into a hopeless one. This is a public episode....

Reading the life of Father Daniel the Hesychast from Athonite Fathers of the 20th Century This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Chrismation [Confirmation]: * How that grace anoints the soul, cleansed by baptism from original sin, with the joy of sonship; * How that grace confirms a man in the Faith of Christ and seals him for the Kingdom of God. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Baptism: * How that grace gives power to the soul to follow Christ the Lord; * How it is a pledge of God’s adoption of the baptized man. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the grace of God the Holy Spirit in the Mystery [Sacrament] of Baptism: * How that grace cleanses man from original sin; * How it brings man to participation in the freedom of Christ. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate God the Holy Spirit as the Inspirer of justice, peace and joy: * How He inspired with justice, peace and joy all the lovers of Christ’s justice; * How He inspired—and even today inspires—with justice, peace and joy all the sufferers for Christ’s justice. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit t...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate God the Holy Spirit as an Inspirer of meekness and gentleness: * How He has inspired meekness and gentleness in ascetics and hermits throughout the ages; * How He inspired—and inspires even today—meekness and gentleness in all truly repentant souls. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommys...

John and I continue commentary and reading Rules for Radicals This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate God the Holy Spirit as the Inspirer of wisdom and truth: * How He inspired with wisdom and truth the prophets, evangelists and apostles who wrote the Holy Scriptures by His inspiration and guidance; * How He inspired with wisdom and truth the Holy Fathers, who interpreted the Holy Scriptures by His inspiration and guidance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the martyrs: * How the Holy Spirit provided them with comfort in their sufferings; * How occasionally, according to His will, He made their bodies immune to the effects of fire. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the holy martyrs for the Faith: * How the Holy Spirit gives them wisdom to speak before judges; * How the Holy Spirit gives them courage to die on the scaffold. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How the Holy Spirit miraculously guided the feet of the apostles to distant lands; * How the Holy Spirit assembled them in Jerusalem from distant lands for the burial of the Most-holy Theotokos. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmo...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How, by the Holy Spirit, the apostles received mystical visions of the other world; * How, by the Holy Spirit, the apostles perceived mysteries in the hearts of men. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How the Holy Spirit led the apostles through all sorrows and tribulations, filling their hearts with consolation and joy; * How the Holy Spirit made those seeds of the Gospel that the apostles sowed throughout the world grow and flourish, even where they seemed to have been scattered in vain. This is a public episode....

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How the apostles, led by the Holy Spirit, traveled throughout the world without means and without friends; * How they converted the rich and the poor to the Christian Faith by their words, lives and miracles alone. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ep...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of the Holy Spirit on the apostles: * How, from fishermen,, He makes fishers of men for the Kingdom of God; * How, from shepherds of an irrational flock, He makes shepherds of the rational flock. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How He makes the simple wise; * How He makes the inarticulate eloquent. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How the small are made great by God the Holy Spirit; * How the fearful are made fearless by Him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How all the men wondered and marveled, hearing the apostles speak in different tongues; * How some mocked them, saying: They have had too much new wine (Acts 2:13). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe