The Tending Table
Fr. Bliss Spillar, OSAA place where hunger and hope can sit down together.
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The Drowning One
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1560)
The following is an imagined conversation between the poet W. H. Auden and Abba Anthony the Great. On the surface, they may seem unlikely companions in a conversation about...
The Peace of Christ’s Friends
“The Communion of Saints”, baptistry, Padua, Italy
The Holy Spirit has been called “the Lord, the giver of life” and, drawing their power from that source, saints are essentially life-givers. To be with them is to become more alive.
Fred...
The Wages of Water
me baptizing the youngest of our Baptismal Candidates on Sept 20, 2026.
Two Sundays ago we celebrated our parish’s annual Church at the River which nearly always includes baptisms. I’ve posted previously some of the sayings of the saints a...
I Carry You
The following prayer1 is from Philoxenus of Mabbug, the 6th century Syriac bishop,. He intended this prayer to be spoken while holding the Eucharist in one’s hands. It is one of the more stunning prayers of adoration I have ever come across...
Steeped in Water
Last Sunday, we baptized one of our own at All Souls Cville. This coming Sunday, five more will stand with the congregation, take on vows, and then enter the water. Needless to say, I have been steeped (pun intended) in baptism texts these...
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priest in the diocese of st. anthony (CEEC) • poet • vicar of large things at a small parish at All Souls Cville • oblate of the order of st. anthony
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