Year Zero

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...

We read the life of Saint Nino the Enlightener of the Georgians and Equal of the Apostles. 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 earth quaked at His return to the body, as it had at His separation from the body; * How the angels descended into the tomb to serve Him, as they had always served Him when He allowed them to do so. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmon...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus: * How His soul returned again from hades into His body; * How He, through His divine power, by which He had resurrected other dead bodies, resurrected His own 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.com/subscribe

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 Lord Jesus in hades: * How He descended into hades with great power, at which hades trembled; * How the evil spirits, who were then lords of hades, fled before His Face; * How the souls of the righteous ancestors and prophets overwhelmingly rejoiced at His coming. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in hades: * How His plan for salvation is all-abundant, encompassing all generations and all ages from the beginning to the end; * How He came to earth in the flesh, not only for the sake of those who lived on earth then and for the sake of those who would live, but also for those who had already lived; * How He, while His lifeless body lay in the tomb, des...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death: * How there lay in the grave the lifeless body of Him Who, while living, gave life to the dead; * How against Him, even in death, there raged the hatred of His enemies; * How His disciples locked themselves in a house for fear of the Jews (John 20:19). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

CONTEMPLATION Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death: * How His body lay peacefully in a grave; * How He descended in spirit to the souls in hades in order to redeem the souls of the forefathers. 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 Lord Jesus in death: * How His body was taken down from the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea; * How Joseph and Nicodemus wrapped the body of the Lord in a pure linen cloth, anointed Him with spices, and placed Him in a new tomb; * How faithful and unafraid were these two distinguished men in the midst of Christ’s many enemies and amidst general fear and denials. This is a...

We finish reading The Life of Saint Pachomios 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