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The Carpenter's Son - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
A student is halfway through Saint Matthew when another man asks to borrow his book. The student, St. Ciarán gives it away. The brothers call him…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains - The Judges and the First King
Moses has died, and Joshua must lead the people across the Jordan. Dcn. Seraphim continues his verse translation of the Saltair na Rann through the fall of…
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St. Guthlac - The Warrior of the Fens
What would you get if St. Anthony the Great and St. Moses the Black had been raised on the Beowulf poem before pursuing their monastic vocation? In the dark…
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St. Cybi - The Saint who would not be King
During his recent pilgrimage to the ancient Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd, Dcn. Seraphim takes some time at St. Cybi's well to tell us the saint's story: a…
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The Life of St. Wilfrid of York
Deacon Seraphim shares the life and many of the stories of St. Wilfrid of York, a Northumbrian Bishop who served the Church in the 7th century and reposed in…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains - Out of Egypt
A baby floats down the Nile in a basket of reeds, and a king's daughter kneels to lift him out. Eighty years later, Moses raises a bronze serpent on a pole…
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The Blackbird's Nest - St. Kevin of Glendalough
It is Lent in a steep valley of the Wicklow Mountains, and a man has stood at prayer so long that a blackbird mistakes him for a tree. She builds her nest in…
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The Voyage - St. Brendan the Navigator
It is Easter morning somewhere in the cold gray Atlantic fifteen hundred years ago, and fourteen monks light a fire to boil their Paschal kettle — and the…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains - The Patriarchs
Dcn. Seraphim continues the read-through of the Saltair na Rann through the three great patriarchs — Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph — finding there the most…
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The Candle of the Church - The Venerable Bede
The plague of 686 has emptied the new monastery at Jarrow, and when all the dead are buried only two voices are left who can sing the full daily office — the…
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The Tree Speaks - The Dream of the Rood
In a small parish church in the Scottish lowlands stands a stone cross eighteen feet high, carved around the year 700, and up its sides, among the vine-scrolls…
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The Philosopher of Canterbury - St. Theodore of Tarsus
Rome, 667, and the plague is burying the dead again: among them the Englishman sent from Canterbury to be made archbishop, dead within days of arriving. The…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains - From the Flood to the Friend of God
Dcn. Seraphim continues his reading of the Saltair na Rann from the Flood to Abraham, the friend of God. Somewhere in the middle of all of this, the poet…
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A Light in Kent - St. Augustine of Canterbury
In a Roman slave market around the year 575, a monk stops before a stall of fair-haired boys from a far northern island and asks where they are from. Told they…
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Caedmon's Call
Imagine a hall in Northumbria, thirteen hundred years ago, and the harp going round the benches after supper — and one man rising in dread and slipping out…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains, Cantos VIII-XII - The Tree and the Cross
Dcn. Seraphim reads cantos eight through twelve of the Saltair na Rann in a single great sweep: the whole story of Adam and Eve, from the serpent in the garden…
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The Shepherd who Saw a Saint
A shepherd boy on a Northumbrian hillside looked up one night and saw the heavens open, and angels carrying a soul of fire into the light. The next morning he…
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Mother of the English - St. Hilda of Whitby
Dcn. Seraphim tells the story of St. Hilda of Whitby: born into the royal house of Northumbria, baptized at Easter beside King Edwin by a missionary from Rome…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains, Cantos IV-VII - Between the Devil and Paradise
Dcn. Seraphim reads us cantos 4-7 of the Psalter of the Quatrains, and we learn the strange and wonderful Irish version (by way of Syria) of the creation of…
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The Raven-King - St. Oswald of Northumbria
You met Oswald in the Aidan episode — the king who knelt in the dirt and translated the gospel for his people, who broke a silver dish on Easter and gave the…
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Orthodox Christianity in Wales - Then and Now | Interview with Fr. Jacob Siemens
Dcn. Seraphim is joined by Fr. Jacob Siemens, a priest in Cardiff, Wales under the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe…
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The Apostle to the North - St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
The Venerable Bede knew Aidan's disciples personally — and he wrote about Aidan with a warmth he showed almost no one else, even though they disagreed on the…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains, Canto III - The Angels
Dcn. Seraphim reads us the third Canto of the Saltair na Rann, which describes the heavenly orders -- the nine ranks of the angels and the tenth rank as…
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The Waterman - St. David of Wales
We return to Wales for the first time since Episode 2 to tell the story of its patron saint: Dewi Sant, the Waterman. Born to the holy Non, educated under…
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The White House - St. Ninian of Whithorn
Dcn. Seraphim tells us the story of St. Ninian, Apostle to the Picts, Scotland's first recorded saint and a great healer and wonderworker. In doing so, he…
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St. Columba, the Dove of the Church
Dcn. Seraphim tells us the story of Saint Columba of Iona — the aristocrat-monk whose name means "dove" but whose life was shaped as much by penance as by…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains, Canto II
Dcn. Seraphim reads us the second Canto of the Saltair na Rann, which describes the glories of heaven, melding Celtic otherworld traditions with a vision of…
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St. Brigid, Mary of the Gaels
Dcn. Seraphim tells us the life and miracles of Saint Brigid of Kildare — the only woman among Ireland's three patron saints, and perhaps the most beloved and…
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The Rock of St. Michael — A St. Patrick's Day Episode
For St. Patrick's Day, Dcn. Seraphim presents his own translation of a remarkable and little-known medieval Latin text: the Skellig Michael legend from the…
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The Psalter of the Quatrains, Canto I
Dcn. Seraphim introduces us to the Saltair na Rann, the great tenth-century Old Irish poem that retells the whole of salvation history — from the first day of…
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The Teacher and the Twelve
Today, Dcn. Seraphim tells the story of Saint Finnian of Clonard — the "Teacher of the Saints of Ireland" — who traveled to Wales to study under the heirs of…
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The Apostle of Ireland
Dcn. Seraphim tells us the story of Saint Patrick in his own words: a Romano-British boy is seized by Irish raiders and sold into slavery, where he discovers…
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The Dawn of the Age of Saints
After Rome's withdrawal from Britain, the faith survives and flourishes in Wales. Dcn. Seraphim tells the stories of Saint Dyfrig (Dubricius), the…
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Blood and Thorn
Dcn. Seraphim begins The Great Rood Screen Podcast with the legend of Joseph of Arimathea's arrival at Glastonbury, the miraculous Holy Thorn, and the founding…