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Episode Twenty-four in the on-going series, Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation, was uploaded to the AIC’s You Tube channel on Wednesday. With this episode I begin my discussion of Chapter 19, with verses 1-10. Continue reading “Revelation – Episode 24 and Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity”
Earlier today I completed and uploaded Revelation: An Idealist
Interpretation, Episode Twenty-three in both video and podcast versions. The topic is Revelation, Chapter 18, the Fall of Babylon. Illustrations from the Bamberg Apocalypse include Folio 45, the Fall of Babylon and Folio 46, Angel with Millstone. Watch the Video on You Tube Or Listen to the Podcast version.
Chapter 18 is the second of two chapters in Act III of the Divine Drama that is the second half of Revelation. The chapter includes a litany of condemnation and graphic depiction of the manner and mode of punishment for the spiritual Babylon (Rome), including punishment doubled consistent with her transgression. I explain the Greek meaning of the word from which “fornication” is derived and point out that it means not only harlotry but also idolatry.
I also completed and uploaded my Podcast Homily for Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity (Ephesians 4:1-6; Luke 14:1-11). Listen to the Podcast Homily
I have now completed all the scripts and slides for the series and will be introducing them, one per week, until the final episode, Episode Twenty-eight, is uploaded. I have started work on the book version, which I hope will be ready for Easter 2016 A.D.
Quite a busy week, starting with a heart catheterization on Tuesday. I am thankful and glad to report that the test found no new blockages in my heart and no obstruction in the stent which was installed in 2013. The most convincing theory of the moment is that my symptoms were the result of stress, lack of exercise and lack of sleep, etc. Consequently, lifestyle changes have already been made, including regular exercise, including at least 30 minutes of walking, and regular massages at my chiropractor’s office.
There will be no new episodes in our Bible Study series on Revelation this week. I hope to complete work on Episode 23, focused on Revelation 18, before the end of next week. All the slides are done, as is the sound recording. I have to coordinate the pictures and sound, tedious, time-consuming work for which had neither time nor energy for this week! Thanks for your patience.
I am presently at work on the final Chapter of Revelation and hope to have all the episodes completed before the middle of October.
I did complete and upload to the AIC Web Site and Facebook my Podcast Homily for Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity. The Gospel reading covers the Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain (Luke 7:11-17). The only illustration I know of is the lovely watercolor from the Life of Christ series by James Tissot at the Brooklyn Museum.
The AIC’s Revelation series moves closer to the end of the series with Episode Twenty-two, The Harlot of Babylon and Her Beast, focused on Chapter 17. There is only one new illustration, from Folio 43, the Bamberg Apocalypse, The Whore of Babylon. As you see, the title follows the King James text while title follows the less inflammatory version used in the New King James Version. Continue reading “Revelation – Episode 22 and Trinity 15”
The episodes of Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation get harder to do as St. John moves toward the concluding chapters. The subjects become more complex and include new images. Episode Twenty-one, completed and uploaded earlier today, is focused on Chapters 15 and 16. Continue reading “Revelation – Episode Twenty-one”
My Podcast Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity is now available on the Podcast Homilies page at the AIC Web Site, on our Podbean site and via iTunes Podcasts. The two readings are Galatians 5:16-24, St. Paul’s mini-homily on the Christian virtues (fruits of the Spirit) and Continue reading “Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity”
Surprisingly, amidst the hustle and bustle of celebrating my 73rd birthday yesterday, getting Episode Twenty in the Revelation series uploaded to the AIC’s You Tube channel, and servicing client accounts, I managed to complete and upload a Podcast Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity.
The Scriptural texts are Galatians 3:16-22 and Luke 10:29-37, Continue reading “73rd Birthday, Episode 20 & Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity”
Late yesterday, on my 73rd birthday, I uploaded a new installment in the Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation series. The focus of Episode Twenty is Chapter 14, the Lamb and the 144 Thousand. Among the illustrations are two graphics from the Bamberg Apocalypse, an early 11th Century illustrated manuscript of Revelation. Also in the episode are the Christ Pantokrator icon (6th C.) Continue reading “Revelation – Episode Twenty”
The AIC’s online Bible Study series, Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation, is nearing its completion with the uploading this week of Episode Nineteen. The series will conclude in late September or early October with Episode Twenty-eight. Continue reading “Revelation 19 and Twelfth Sunday After Trinity”
This week my iPad was replaced by Apple and I was able to complete production of Episode Eighteen in the Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation series. The episode is focused on Chapter 13:1-10, the Beast with a Blasphemous Name. The remaining verses in Chapter 13 will be discussed in Episode Nineteen. St. John’s perspective is still earth, looking to heaven, when he receives a vision of the Beast with seven heads,each crowned,ten horns, and “on his head a blasphemous name.” Watch Episode 18 Continue reading “Revelation – Episode 18 and Eleventh Sunday After Trinity”
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