September 28, 2026
The Old Words Are Not Tame
An ancient prayer from Apostolic Constitutions for worship, holy spirit, table.
There is a kind of spiritual speech that sounds antique only because we have become so modern in our evasions. The older authors still know how to ask plainly.
Christian memory is not a scrapbook. It is a school. This is one of the lessons.
Source boundary: this post reflects on For the First-Fruits, attributed in the corpus to Apostolic Constitutions. No outside sources used.