Year Zero

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

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles: * How there appeared fiery tongues over the apostles, one on each of them; * How the apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak in various tongues, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the holy apostles: * How the apostles stood in one mind at prayer; * How, suddenly, there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind. 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 Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How He first resurrected bodily and then ascended bodily; * How after death the souls of righteous men first ascend into heaven while the body awaits the general resurrection, general transfiguration and general ascension. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

Daniel Miller joined me to discuss the Texas Nationalist Movement, its history and progress. TNM.me Texian.app 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 ascended Lord Jesus: * How, by His Ascension, He signified the triumphant completion of His entire work on earth in the course of some thirty-three years; * How, by His Ascension, He teaches us that we should direct all of our aspirations toward heaven and not toward earth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the ascended Lord Jesus: * How, by His Ascension, He manifested His Divine Nature and His Divine Might; * How, by His Ascension into heaven, He reveals to man that there exists a better, loftier world and life: a heavenly world and heavenly life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalm...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the ascended Lord Jesus: * How He began His saving work on earth as an ordinary humble worker; * How He completed His saving work by His miraculous and glorious Ascension into heaven. 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 Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How the disciples worshiped Him; * How they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 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 Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How two angels appeared to the disciples while they were still gazing after the ascended Lord; * How the angels proclaimed that the Lord would come again in the same manner as the disciples saw Him ascending into heaven. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How all the gravitational forces on earth were unable to keep the body of the Lord from ascending; * How, by His Ascension, the Lord showed Himself to be above the laws of nature. 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 Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How the Lord, blessing His disciples, was raised above the earth and borne to heaven; * How the disciples watched Him as He ascended until a cloud hid Him from their sight. 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

We dive into the refutations by Saint Hilarion of socialism 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 Ascension of the Lord Jesus: * How He led His disciples to a hill near Bethany; * How, with uplifted hands, He blessed the disciples. 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 commanded that repentance and forgiveness of sins be preached in His name; * How He commanded His disciples to await the Father’s promise of the power of the Holy Spirit from on high. 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

Reading St John Maximovitch’s The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God 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