Year Zero

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How His Resurrection is a great light, which dispels the darkness of our doubt, ignorance and despair concerning life after death; * How His Resurrection is a great light that illuminates the path on which we must travel in this world in order to arrive at the other world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How His Resurrection incites us and strengthens us for every good work, physical and spiritual; * How His Resurrection enlightens our every good work with the light of hope in the Living God, Who counts our works, measures them and preserves them for the Day of Judgment. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subsc...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How His Resurrection drives away from us all confusion, gloom and sadness; * How His Resurrection instills serenity, courage and goodwill into the souls 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 resurrected Lord Jesus: * How His Resurrection is the beginning of a new and bright day in the history of mankind; * How His Resurrection is my peace and my strength, and the resurrection of my soul while I am still in the body. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.c...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How by His Resurrection, He justified the faith and hope of mankind in immortality; * How by His Resurrection, He destroyed the fear of death in the faithful. 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

John and I continue the reading and commentary on 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

My good friend Paisios Wainwright joins me to discuss his struggles and path to Orthodoxy. Wainwright Ceramics 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 resurrected Lord Jesus: * How when He appeared to the apostles, He appeared to all of us; * How His Resurrection is the proof of eternal life and the announcement of eternal life to all of mankind. 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 resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He, as the Almighty Victor over death, does not seek revenge on His enemies who tortured and crucified Him, but, leaving them to themselves, He sustains His frightened friends; * How even today, as in all times, in His innocence and meekness He does not hurry to seek revenge on the unfaithful, but hurries to the aid of the faithful. This...

Reading Father Gregory the Confessor 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 resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He, in His glorified body, is close to His disciples; close to them who are seeking Him (Mary Magdalene in the Garden); close to those who are in fear (the disciples in a closed room); close to those who are hungry (those on the shore of the lake); * How He is close, even now, to every one of us who seek Him, who is in fear, and who is hu...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How His Resurrection brought unspeakable joy to those who loved Him; * How His Resurrection brought unspeakable bitterness to those who hated Him; * How His final coming into the world, in glory and power, will evoke different feelings among different people—either joy or bitterness. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How for forty days after the Resurrection He remained on earth, showing Himself to the faithful and strengthening them in the Faith; * How, by His forty-day manifestation, He demonstrated that He did not resurrect for His own sake, but for the sake of mankind. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or g...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How, according to the testimony of St. Paul, He appeared alive to five hundred people at once: After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep (1 Corinthians 15:6); * How He appeared to the Apostle James, again, according to the testimony of the Apostle Paul: Af...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He was concerned about the physical nourishment of His disciples; how He broke and blessed bread for the disciples in Emmaus; * How, by the shore of the lake, he asked His disciples: Have ye any meat? (John 21:5). How, when they answered Him that they had not, He prepared bread and fish and gave it to them. This is a public episode. If yo...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He appeared to the disciples on the shore of the lake and addressed them: Children (John 21:5); * How He filled their nets again with fish, and they knew Him, though none dared ask: Who art Thou? (John 21:12). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How, because of Thomas, who was momentarily the only unbelieving one among the disciples, He appeared again in His glorified Body; * How Thomas placed his finger into the wounds of the All-pure Body of the Lord and believed. 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 the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He entered among His disciples through closed doors and gave them peace; * How there were no material obstacles to His appearing in His glorified body wherever He wanted. 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 resurrected Lord Jesus: * How Simon Peter and the other disciple ran quickly to the tomb to confirm the news of the Resurrection; * How one after the other entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths and the napkin; * How they both saw and believed, and then witnessed; and how, for their witness, they died. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ot...

John and I continue to read and comment on 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 the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He appeared to two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus, and they did not recognize Him; * How the hearts of these two disciples burned within them when He spoke to them, and how they recognized Him only when He blessed and broke bread for them; * How the Lord suddenly disappeared before their eyes. This is a public episode. If you'd li...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * How He appeared to Mary Magdalene in the Garden and, at first glance, Mary did not recognize Him; * How He tenderheartedly addressed Mary, and how Mary then recognized Him and rejoiced in Him, and imparted her joy to the disciples. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus: * In an earthly body before the Resurrection, in a body susceptible to hunger, pain and death; * In a heavenly body after the Resurrection, in a body not susceptible to hunger, pain and death. 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 Resurrection of the Lord Jesus: * How the myrrh-bearing women, with myrrh and aloes, approach the tomb to anoint the One Who is the sweet-smelling savor of heaven and earth; * How the angel announces the Resurrection of our Lord to them with the words: Why seek ye the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with othe...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus: * How the stone on the tomb did not split, neither was the seal on it broken; * How the All-powerful and meek Lord did not damage the tomb during His Resurrection, as the Virgin’s womb was not harmed in His birth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommys...