The Twelve Feasts

This exploration is coming soon. It will cover the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year and their significance for the hesychast practitioner.

The exploration will examine several of the feasts in depth — particularly the Transfiguration of Christ, whose theological significance for hesychasm can hardly be overstated — and will consider how the annual return to these fixed celebrations functions differently from a one-time encounter with the same events. It will ask what it means to be shaped by a cycle, to receive the same mysteries at different stages of one's life and find them inexhaustibly different, and how the feasts function as occasions for the kind of participatory knowing the tradition values above all.