Mysterion Words Homiletical and Poetical, Reflective and Narrative

Start date: July 2011 728 minutes, 4 seconds in 44 episodes

Join Fr. Richard Rene, priest at St. Aidan’s in Cranbrook, British Columbia, for words homiletical and poetical, reflective and narrative. Come and explore the challenges of the spiritual life at the intersection of the eternal Gospel and the 21st century.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
May 23, 2012	Seeing Reality (with a Capital R) Fr. Richard explains that the blind man Jesus healed did not just go from physical blindness to physical sight, but also from spiritual blindness to spiritual sight. Click to play	23:37
May 16, 2012	The Ministry of Suffering Fr. Richard explains that chronic pain and illness are not a detour from real life, but rather the very path that leads to real life. Click to play	05:36
May 09, 2012	Radical Attendance Fr. Richard explains why the myrrh-bearing women returned to the womb and what it means for the Christian life. Click to play	18:31
May 02, 2012	The Wounded Healer Fr. Richard examines what it means to be a living testimonial of Christ. Click to play	22:56
Apr 25, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Seven: Struggle Daily to Rest Eternally Fr. Richard examines the seventh day of creation and what it teaches us about rest. Click to play	17:45
Apr 18, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Six: Offer Your World As Praise Fr. Richard examines the work that God did on the sixth day of creation and finds that the fundamental purpose of human beings is voicing praise. Click to play	20:32
Apr 11, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Five: Be Fruitful in Silence and Multiply in Generosity Fr. Richard examines the work that God did on the fifth day of creation and what it teaches us about making Christ present in each and every moment of our lives. Click to play	23:10
Apr 04, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Four: Live in the Intervals Fr. Richard examines the work that God did on the fourth day of creation and what it teaches us about living in the moment. Click to play	19:39
Mar 28, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Three: Live According to Specifications Fr. Richard examines the work that God did on the third day of creation and what it teaches us about the habits of genuine humanity. Click to play	17:11
Mar 21, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part Two: Make a Sacred Space Fr. Richard examines the second day of creation and what it tells us about humanity, even as we anticipate the ultimate revelation and perfection of humanity at the Pascha of our Lord Jesus Christ.	14:03
Mar 14, 2012	The Seven Habits of Real Human Beings, Part One: Begin Where You Are By reading the Book of Genesis during Great Lent, the Church reminds us that the forty days are a time in which we can allow ourselves to be created as real human beings. Fr. Richard begins to look at each of the seven days of creation to discover what they teach us about Christ as the ultimate"'real human being" who we can strive to imitate in the time leading up to Pascha.	17:33
Mar 07, 2012	Surprise Judgments Ahead; Expect Anything! Fr. Richard explains that the reason we will be surprised by God's judgment is because we have already judged ourselves.	18:59
Feb 29, 2012	How to Make a Full Disclosure Fr. Richard concludes his series on repentance with a discussion of the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee.	15:34
Feb 22, 2012	Disclose and Dispose Fr. Richard discusses the history of repentance in the Church to demonstrate how we are to practice repentance in our lives.	18:51
Feb 15, 2012	What Happens in Vegas . . . Fr. Richard explains how we are to practice repentance.	18:36
Feb 08, 2012	Look Up and See Your Maker Fr. Richard begins a new series of homilies on repentance.	14:21
Feb 01, 2012	Faith from the Inside Out Our faith cannot be imposed from the outside in. In this week's episode, Fr. Richard speaks of how an authentic Christian life can be grown from the inside out.	16:41
Jan 25, 2012	Christians Are Not Respectable Fr. Richard speaks on the Samaritan leper and the Christian vocation to radical devotion.	18:24
Jan 18, 2012	Spiritual Awakening Fr. Richard explores the three phases of the process of awakening to what Christ has done for us.	18:29
Jan 11, 2012	Occupy Your Heart Fr. Richard argues that before we can successfully occupy New York, Vancouver, or anywhere else, we need to first occupy our own hearts.	11:52
Jan 04, 2012	Living as the Family of God Fr. Richard explores the two primary challenges of living as the family of God.	17:47
Dec 31, 2011	Suffering Is a Secret; Suffering Is a Gift Why do the innocent suffer? Fr. Richard answers this troubling spiritual question.	18:31
Dec 21, 2011	The Anatomy of Fear Fr. Richard defines "fear" as the refusal to look at ourselves honestly—to fail to take responsibility for who we really are.	05:51
Dec 14, 2011	Living the Same Way on the Inside as on the Outside Fr. Richard explains how to be a transparent community.	19:44
Dec 07, 2011	You Are Already Naked Fr. Richard discusses our spiritual transparency before God.	17:37
Nov 30, 2011	The Two Nation Way Fr. Richard explains that the world cannot be divided into nations; rather, we all share a radical equality of failure.	16:46
Nov 22, 2011	No One Is a Demon Fr. Richard preaches on the Gerasine Demoniac.	17:59
Nov 16, 2011	Christianity and Patriotism On behalf of the Ministerial Association of Cranbrook, British Columbia, Fr. Richard offers a Christian response to the topic statement of this year's Interfaith Symposium: "Love of Country Is Part of My Faith."	17:02
Nov 09, 2011	Benign Cells in the Body of Christ (I Corinthians 12-14) What are spiritual gifts and how are they to be used? Fr. Richard answers both questions.	20:38
Nov 02, 2011	The Maverick Mentality and Discerning the Body (I Corinthians 11) Fr. Richard addresses how to preserve the life of the Church free from worldly influences.	17:13
Oct 26, 2011	For the Good of the Weak (I Corinthians 8-10) Fr. Richard argues that using our freedom in such a way that causes other people to stumble is completely inconsistent with a Christian vocation.	16:48
Oct 19, 2011	Introduction to Mysterion Fr. Richard introduces us to the world of Mysterion where his young adult fantasy series takes place. The newest book in the series, The Edge of Mysterion, was just published by Conciliar Press.	05:43
Oct 12, 2011	Is It Helpful? (I Corinthians 7) Fr. Richard explains how to maintain our holiness in the midst of the world without succumbing to the temptation to escape the world.	18:47
Oct 05, 2011	Drawing the Line Between the Church and the World (1 Corinthians 5-6) Fr. Richard explains the distinction between being in the world and being of the world.	21:22
Sep 28, 2011	Dormition and the Good Death Fr. Richard explains that the Dormition of the Theotokos teaches us how disciples of Jesus Christ are called to die.	12:05
Sep 21, 2011	The Third Day After September 11th Fr. Richard argues that since the Cross, we can no longer use violence to bind up our society—to unite against others, no matter how hard we try.	12:24
Sep 14, 2011	Water Poems In addition to serving as a priest, Fr. Richard is a writer of fiction and poetry. His young adult science-fiction book Mysterion will soon be published by Conciliar Press, and here he reads a work titled "Water Poems."	05:53
Sep 07, 2011	Of Personal Branding and Identity in Christ (I Corinthians 1) Fr. Richard argues that when we promote our personal brand, we're just carrying the factionalism of the Corinthians to its most selfish, individualistic, and atomized end.	24:25
Aug 30, 2011	More on Dispassion Fr. Richard explains that "suffering" is slavery to something outside ourselves, and that "dispassion" is a lack of suffering—the quality of not being enslaved to external impulses.	09:20
Aug 24, 2011	The Principle of Dispassion Fr. Richard explains that when an ordinary human being is deluded into thinking that he possesses the personal power to singlehandedly redeem another person, something has gone terribly wrong.	07:32
Aug 17, 2011	The Saints as Peacemakers Fr. Richard explains that when Jesus talks about Peace, he's not talking about pacifism, but rather about whether we are confident that we belong to and with the Father.	22:50
Aug 09, 2011	Panentheism As Orthodox Christians, we are neither pantheists nor theists, but rather panentheists. Fr. Richard explains.	10:17
Aug 02, 2011	The True Meaning of Freedom Fr. Richard compares the concept of freedom according to culture with the concept of freedom according to Christ.	16:31
Jul 22, 2011	All Saints Sunday On this inaugural episode of Mysterion, Fr. Richard Rene of St. Aidan Orthodox Church in Cranbrook, British Columbia, shares his homily from the Sunday of All Saints.	22:39