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FrKimel
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I have just completed a three-part blog series on St Gregory’s Second Theological Oration. I think it may be the best thing I’ve written yet for my new blog. I welcome discussion and critique.
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5Loaves
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Bless, Father.
Thank you. I look forward to reading your (lengthy
) reflection on this oration. I suspect I won’t finish it today… meeting friends to go see Les Misérables – are we the last ones to see it? 
My “pious son” (by spiritual adoption “only”) took the name Br. Gregory when he began his novitiate with the Dominicans recently, so I have all the more tug to St Gregory.
Kontakion
By words of theology you unraveled the complex webs of the orators,
glorious Gregory,
and adorned the Church with the robe of Orthodoxy woven from on high.
Wearing it, she cries out with us, her children:
“Rejoice, O Father, supreme mind of theology.”
I like the translation “…Hail Father, the consummate theological mind.”
Thank you. I look forward to reading your (lengthy
) reflection on this oration. I suspect I won’t finish it today… meeting friends to go see Les Misérables – are we the last ones to see it? My “pious son” (by spiritual adoption “only”) took the name Br. Gregory when he began his novitiate with the Dominicans recently, so I have all the more tug to St Gregory.
Kontakion
By words of theology you unraveled the complex webs of the orators,
glorious Gregory,
and adorned the Church with the robe of Orthodoxy woven from on high.
Wearing it, she cries out with us, her children:
“Rejoice, O Father, supreme mind of theology.”
I like the translation “…Hail Father, the consummate theological mind.”
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