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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two used books I got today from the monastery bookstore.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don’t tell your friends or yourself that I have the shortcut saved here. I don’t use it religiously, but I do use it.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What a privilege it was to share in the joy of my friend @john-marx.bsky.social’s ordination to the diaconate in the Evangelical Catholic Church today! Άξιος! And many years!

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Going to an ordination. This is my outfit. With joy!

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm not a graphic designer or meme-creator. But a few weeks ago I watched Rainn Wilson's interview with David Bentley Hart, and this one moment really gripped me. What do you think?

Rainn Wilson: What do you hope for the future of Christianity as a whole?

David Bentley Hart: I’m hoping for vast historical failure — which has already happened — but, I mean, as long as the temptation of power, the discourse of rescuing civilization in which we love the preeminence of the throne and altar accommodations of the great age of Christendom more than we love the humility, and kindness and compassion of Christ . . . I want to see the whole project of Christianism, of Christendom, collapse under its own weight in an absolute, abject, historical failure so vast that the very words ‘Christian civilization’ will have to be nothing other than soup kitchens.

R.W.: Those are some mighty words. And then out of that collapse, out of the ashes rises the phoenix of what?

DBH: Maybe an actual attention to God as love, the love of God and neighbor as being the whole of the law and the prophets.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I also got my copy of Barth's C.D. for $185.00. (May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord, and in his mercy in letting me get expensive books for cheap).

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Maybe you'll get lucky. I found a copy of Lampe's _A_Patristic_Greek_Lexicon_ (1969) used for $80 on Facebook marketplace. It goes for $665 (new) from OUP.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

same vibe, but quite actually the correct answer is

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Important question: what were *you* listening to when you still wanted to become a monk?

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today, August 13, is a good day to read the Trial of Maximus the Confessor. I dare you to. Pro tip: the red book is cheaper than the green book.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Me, an exhausted retail worker: "I don't care." My heretofore indefatigable retail manager: "You should always care, Scott!"

Photo of a monastic person in the desert. The caption reads: "We don't care. - The Desert Fathers"

Photo credit, Steve Robinson

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Old post, ca. 2013: Dad says he's gonna write an Orthodox sit-com called, 'My Son the Byzantine.' Comment: Title of first episode: How Do You Pronounce Hesychast? Reply: Barlaam the Calabrian: "Good luck getting the hesychasts to explain it to you!" St. Gregory Palamas: "Hold my prayer rope."

Photo of three translations of The Triads by St Gregory Palamas, a volume of his homilies, and The Philokalia Volume Four: five books stacked behind a mounted icon of St Gregory, with a blue prayer rope in the foreground.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

POV: you’re sitting down to see The Odyssey (Nolan, 2026), and you and your buddy are the only ones in the theater. Matinee, but man the anticipation is not living up to the hype in my Midwest town.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's not as fun this way, but on a lazy Sunday afternoon it's my way.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A close second, though it is really just a meme

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I went to pick these up from my library tonight, only to realize it was closed.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’ve been at this current reading program for some time (on a two-ish week trial), and it just now occurs to me that I might do better trying to read longer sections of theology or philosophy in the early afternoon, and try to do my patristics devotions in the evening, followed by poetry.

Morning - Bible
Lectionary, One Psalter stasis,
devotional reading
Afternoon - Patristics
Desert Fathers, Philokalia,
Maximus, Isaac the Syrian, Longer sections of one text
Evening - Theology -/or/— Philosophy Karl Barth, Stăniloae (Dogmatics)
•~OR~• Plato (by dialogue), Plotinus (by "tractate"), Aristotle (by "chapters")
Night
One Psalter stasis, Poetry

So were I to categorize/classify it differently, what this looks like is short passages of:
daily lectionary psalms desert fathers
Philokalia
Maximus the confessor
Isaac the Syrian one Poem
And longer sections of an ongoing read of some patristic text and two other texts in rotation (theology/philosophy)

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

👀 I am looking forward to some fine reading material.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

St. Gregory of Sinai, from: The Philokalia: the complete text, volume four. Trans. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware. London: 1995. Pp 237-238.

113. For beginners prayer is like a joyous fire kindled in the heart; for the perfect it is like a vigorous sweet-scented light. Or again, prayer is the preaching of the Apostles, an action of faith or, rather, faith itself, 'that makes real for us the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1 ), active love, angelic impulse, the power of the bodiless spirits, their work and delight, the Gospel of God, the heart's assurance, hope of salvation, a sign of purity, a token of holiness, knowledge of God, baptism made manifest, purification in the water of regeneration, a pledge of the Holy Spirit, the exultation of Jesus, the soul's delight, God's mercy, a sign of reconciliation, the seal of Christ, a ray of the noetic sun, the heart's dawn-star, the confirmation of the Christian faith, the disclosure of reconciliation with God, God's grace, God's wisdom or, rather, the origin of true and absolute Wisdom; the revelation of God, the work of monks, the life of hesychasts, the source of stillness, and expression of the angelic state. Why say more? Prayer is God, who accomplishes everything in everyone (cf. 1 Cor. 12:6), for there is a single action of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, activating all things through Christ Jesus.

St. Gregory of Sinai
The Philokalia: the complete text, volume four. Trans. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware. London: 1995. Pp 237-238.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This thread will disappoint you because I am good a writing titles. But I want to share anyway. Evening repost.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Why I refuse to put down Patristics, and why you should take and read.

A bookshelf full of all available volumes from Fathers of the Church series by Catholic University of America Press, as of 2019.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

TIL the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople issued an encyclical on 1920 that was instrumental in the development of modern ecumenical relations and the formation of the World Council of Churches. www.oikoumene.org/resources/do...

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hans Urs von Balthasar 100 Alexander Schmemann 98 Vladimir Lossky 98 Sergius Bulgakov 88 John Zizioulas

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I took @theodramatist.com's 20th c. theologian quiz and my top five in order are: Hans Urs von Balthasar 100 Alexander Schmemann 98 Vladimir Lossky 98 Sergius Bulgakov 88 John Zizioulas 83

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Comes as no surprise, and I promise I didn’t attempt to skew results

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Tonight as I am reading the Epistle of Jakob, I am remembering a real one, Dionysios Androutsopoulos, whom I always wish to remember for his joy and cheerfulness. He would always call me, «Αδελφέ μου,» or “Scotty me little brother!” 💟☦️💞

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I can't remember if this was a joint effort between a buddy and me, or if he found this online. I have a feeling he made it.

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Where there is a will, there’s a way. “If you want it, here it is, come and get it. But you’d better hurry cause it’s goin fast.”

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Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔 @scottdhendricks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today's menu: ancient and modern treatments of Christian Universalism.

A stack of seven books on the left of the picture:

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