• 372 - Christmas: The Anchor of Reality (Repost)

  • Dec 24 2024
  • Length: 39 mins
  • Podcast

372 - Christmas: The Anchor of Reality (Repost)

  • Summary

  • This is a repost of a talk given at St-George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Montreal, originally posted in 2018.
    The Nativity icon is not only the image of an event that happened two thousands years ago, but rather by its form and the hierarchy of its elements, shows us the inner working of how the Divine Logos creates the world and how His incarnation acts as the anchor, the fulcrum around which all manifestation holds together.

    Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/i8xow567P74
    Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Symbolism playlist of all the videos I made about Christmas over the years:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVX4HUUPrIY9MeGP5IILeRzu62Q1NPT4C

    Timestamps:
    00:00 - Introduction
    01:10 - Intro music
    01:34 - Introducing the talk
    03:50 - The fast
    05:29 - Elements of the nativity icon
    08:04 - St. Joseph tempted by the devil
    10:44 - The bullseye
    13:24 - The ass and ox
    15:40 - Why born in a cave?
    20:31 - God with us
    25:44 - The real question
    32:44 - Q&A: The river gods
    35:20 - Q: The axe
    35:50 - Q: Early icons
    37:08 - Q: Children baptized
    38:12 - Q: Snakes under the door

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