Synaxis

In today's Synaxis: Holy Saturday Lamentations,;"I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel" by St Sophronius of Jerusalem; "A Sonnet for St Benedict" by Malcolm Guite; "Benedictine Poetry and the Restoration of Christian Culture" by Christopher Fisher; "On the Poetics of Monasticism" by St John Henry Newman; "An Improbable Guide to St Benedict" by Brandon Buerge; "Patrick Doom: A Hero Worthy of Imitation" by Erin Doom.

In this issue of Synaxis: "Holy Synaxis: The Entrance" by St. Maximus the Confessor; "An Allegorical Interpretation of the Prophet Ezekiel's Vision" by St. Macarius the Great; Canto XXV of Paradiso on Hope by Dante; Eighth Day Books Review of The Feast of Friendship by Fr Paul O'Callaghan; "The Christian Hope" by Kathleen Bliss; "The Obscurity of Hope and Despair" by Josef Pieper; and "On Starets Silouan" by Fr. Georges Florovsky.

In this issue of Synaxis: "His Rod, His Staff: Every Reason for Hope" by Anthony Esolen; "Reflections on American Order" by Russell Kirk; "The Return to Paganism and the Desecration of Self-Government" by Jonathan Silver; "The Birth of the New Adam, Our Renewal" by Fr. Calinic Berger; "Hope Surprises God by Charles Péguy; Oration 38 by St Gregory the Theologian in new print edition of A Word from the Fathers; Theophany and Synaxis of the Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John; John 1:29-34.

In this issue of Synaxis: “Three Foes of the Family” by G. K. Chesterton; “The Tutelar of the Place” by David Jones; “The Country of the Blind” by C. S. Lewis; “The Hero Is the Hobbit: A Review of The Fellowship of the Ring” by W. H. Auden; “David Jones: History & Sacrament as Home” by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle; “Oikophilia: An Invitation to Join David Jones in His Home of Sacrament & History” by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle; “Saving the Shire: Ascetic Renunciation and Love of Home in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings” by Richard Rohlin; “Visions of Paradise: Three Toasts to the Inklings” by Richard Rohlin

In a strange twist of events, COVID-19 has stripped down my life. All the activities are now gone and, because of the nature of my job right now, I live in quarantine—a separate part of the house, no TV, radio, or human contact. Under this “pathological monasticism,” I read the Daily Synaxis for the first time.






