Orthodox Priest muddling through with a foot in Late Antiquity. Non sum, sed sursum.
Cardiff, Wales
Joined January 2011
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Part two of the Raven & the Dove documentary where Fr Andrew Damick, @richardrohlin @JSiemensPriest and myself head to Iona, the center of the mission of St. Columba
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Great to catch up with @JSiemensPriest this evening over a pint @chaptertweets. As ever, he is doing some good & interesting things. Good to be back in #Cardiff for the weekend. – at Cardiff, Wales
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Very sadly, he's right...
"Britain has the worst litter problem in the developed world. It’s bad for the spirit to walk through filth."
David Sedaris, American comedian and avid litter-picker living in the UK
Fr Jacob Siemens retweeted
The Wexford Carol, music from 12th century Ireland, the oldest Christmas Carol still sung today. Happy Christmas from the west of Ireland 🎄
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This unusual 12th-century font, depicting a Green Man and a Tree of Life, can be found at Brecon Cathedral. Brecon Cathedral is thought to stand on the site of an earlier Celtic church.
#FontsOnFriday
📸 © AndyScott (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fr Jacob Siemens retweeted
This is gonna be such a rad week.
✨NEW COURSE ALERT–The Quest for the Holy Grail✨
In the dark heart of January, when the nights are long and the world draws close, Dr. Martin Shaw returns to Symbolic World to tell one of the greatest stories of the Medieval imagination: Parzival and the Holy Grail.
This is not a lecture series. It is a quest. It is a telling, spread across five consecutive evenings, two hours each night, the way such stories were meant to be heard: slowly, with the crackle of the fire on the hearth and time for the story to hang in the air and “settle in your jaw” as Martin says.
🗓 Live classes will be over 5 consecutive days, January 12th-16th at 12pm-2pm EST, except for Jan 14th at 4pm-6pm EST
💰 Price: $160 USD
⏰🐥 DON'T MISS OUT! UNTIL DECEMBER 19 YOU CAN GET THE EARLY BIRD SPECIAL OF 15% OFF! Discount automatically applied at checkout.
Link in bio to register and learn more!
Fr Jacob Siemens retweeted
New Areopagus podcast for your Thanksgiving listening pleasure in which we talk about our pilgrimage to Scotland, the saints we encountered, and what we’ve brought home.
youtu.be/ETXSDTNUxMI?si=RjHO…
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The Life of St Bede the Venerable, told in the very place where he prayed each day.
youtu.be/Up4IWf5Sv_k?si=Tia_…
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To our dearest friends and the fuel that powers our program…
@PriestKristoph @FrLillie @FrBarnabas @NoeticSpring @Fragbaza @Lemelson @JSiemensPriest @prezviteros @athenagorasz @frgregoryj @TrisagionFilms
and all our other guests…
THANK YOU
AND THE ORTHOCHAT LOVES YOU☦️
Fr Jacob Siemens retweeted
Metropolitan Saba asked me to speak to the bishops about the convert surge. He then gave a remarkable talk on converts, which should be online soon.
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My favourite anagram is John 18:38:
> Quid est vēritās? — “What is truth?”
> Est vir quī adest — “It is the man who is here.”
Fr Jacob Siemens retweeted
Hey everyone, this is Matthew Namee, director of OSI and the guy behind the Orthodox History account on X. That account got banned for “violating our rules against authenticity,” and our appeal was rejected. No clue what’s going on there, but if you want to continue engaging with my work on church history and data analysis, please follow us here at OSI. A few of us post on this account, but when I post or reply (which will be much more frequent now that I’ve lost Orthodox History), I’ll sign the post so you know it’s from me. Same guy, different account. If you're so inclined, please retweet this to help get the word out. Thanks!
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I asked X: "Which book changed your perspective on life more than any other?"
After THOUSANDS of replies, these were the top 50.
The ultimate 2025 reading list… (bookmark this) 🧵
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I genuinely think it’s insane that, growing up in Britain, there’s an entire native mythological cycle, encompassing vast swathes of the country, that most people have no educational access to
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You are invited to join the Online Orthodox Catechism, beginning Tuesday, 17 September, 19:30 UK time.
This course is appropriate for all enquirers into the Orthodox Faith, regardless of jurisdiction.
Please contact me with any questions you may have!
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW: youtu.be/PG4LW1fLuoY?si=8eCH…
In this 39th installment of THE ORTHOCHAT, we sit down with Fr. Jacob Siemens @JSiemensPriest to discuss the rich heritage of Orthodoxy, a journey to the true faith, and what Christianity means for the western world. Please share and let us know your thoughts on the episode through the comments feature on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and leave us a star rating on Spotify. God and the Theotokos be with you all.
Also, follow Fr. Jacob on his platforms here: linktr.ee/priestjacob?utm_so…
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"Let us not enquire into the affairs of others that concerne us not, but be busied within our selves and our own spheres ... to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge, may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitablenesse"
Jeremy Taylor
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If human ritual and religion is (at a very conservative estimate) around 40,000 years old and we imagine it as a single day, then the earliest written record of human religion is from 8.40pm. The vast majority of human religion is simply lost to us.
