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    New Video uploaded to Youtube
    Brother James Nathaniel SSF
    • Mar 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    New Video uploaded to Youtube

    I've put together another video, this time of Brother Gregory going to Sunday church. I've tried to give outsiders a view of life as a...
    106 views
    Above Holy Transfiguration Monastery
    desmondalbanssf
    • Jul 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Above Holy Transfiguration Monastery

    Late June. Three days ago we kept the Feast Of John, the Great Forerunner, at his birth. Midsummer's sun is glorious in the East, My...
    46 views
    Sestina of Loving Kindness
    desmondalbanssf
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Sestina of Loving Kindness

    A silent pleading, uttered in compassion – A wish? A prayer? – to set its object free From fear and suffering, held instead in love: In...
    34 views
    Nunc Dimittis
    desmondalbanssf
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Nunc Dimittis

    Again he treads the well-worn path, Faith an old remembered habit, The dim recall of some ancient hope Almost gone in weary, wearing,...
    52 views
    Two Works of Caravaggio
    desmondalbanssf
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    Two Works of Caravaggio

    I In jaundiced skin enclosing bitter bile, And self-deceived by hedonistic lies, Sick Bacchus, in defiance, tries to smile, The smirk...
    45 views
    Shepherds Law
    desmondalbanssf
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Shepherds Law

    In Shepherd country on Northumbrian moor, Terraced in former ruins on the hill, Four hermit cells, for simple needs appointed –...
    176 views
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