Year Zero

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

Daniel Miller joined me to discuss the Texas Nationalist Movement, its history and progress.TNM.meTexian.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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 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 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 hungry. 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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: After that, He appeared to James, then to all the apostles (1 Corinthians 15:7);* How in the time of the Apostle Paul, even outside the circle of the apostles, many still lived who had seen 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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

CONTEMPLATIONContemplate 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 episodes, visit tommysalmons.substack.com/subscribe