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… he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. —John 19:30 ESV
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. —Matthew 27:51 ESV
Happy Easter from The Name of Aslan!
—C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. —Isaiah 43:19 ESV
Happy New Year from The Name of Aslan! Let us go on and take this adventure together.
Then he cried out, “Merry Christmas! Long live the true King!” and cracked his whip, and he and the reindeer and the sledge and all were out of sight before anyone realized that they had started. —C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Merry Christmas from The Name of Aslan!
—C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
Merry Christmas Eve from The Name of Aslan!
C. S. Lewis + the longing for heaven 1898–1963
Portrait of C. S. Lewis, Arthur Strong / The Last Battle / The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), dir. Michael Apted / The Problem of Pain / illustration, Pauline Baynes / Till We Have Faces / The Last Battle / Sweet Desire (Poems) / illustration, Pauline Baynes / Mere Christianity / VotDT (2010) / Till We Have Faces / Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne / VotDT (2010) / The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / Till We Have Faces / No Beauty We Could Desire (Poems) / The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), dir. Andrew Adamson / illustration, Pauline Baynes / The Last Battle
TNOA’s 100 Verse Challenge - 9/100
“He is your praise; he is your God.” -- Deuteronomy 10:21a
At that moment they heard from behind them a loud noise as if a giant had broken a giant’s place. . . . The Stone Table was broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down it from end to end; and there was no Aslan. . . . There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself. —C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. —Mark 16:2-4 ESV
Happy Easter from The Name of Aslan!
Romans 8:37 (ESV)
Happy Valentine’s Day from The Name of Aslan. You are so loved!
6 years ago, I started a blog.
Oh, I’d been on tumblr for years before that, finding likeminded people who loved the same things I did, but just over six years ago I messaged one such friend and said, “I want to make a network for the Christian themes in Narnia.” And so six years ago today — January 1st — I made this little blog to host it.
Between the two of us, we collected a few more members: five more, to be exact. We became the Seven Friends of Narnia, and, more importantly, we became TNOA.
I didn’t know what I was creating when I started this blog. I didn’t know that these six random girls who just happened to love Narnia and Jesus would become what they are to me. I didn’t know that I’d be sitting here six years later reminiscing on our most recent trip to see each other and daydreaming about our next one.
See, there was a time shortly after the seven of us first started chatting as a group where one of our members added a “prayer requests” channel to our groupchat, and my heart’s response was, “Even if this blog goes absolutely nowhere, it’s already done what it needs to.” Because in that moment I realized that God had thrown Christian friends into my life: people to pray with and for: people I desperately needed.
I’ve celebrated with these girls. I’ve mourned with them. I’ve stayed up late laughing with them.
I love them.
And, you know, I hope this blog does do more. I hope it does shine a light on the beautiful truths hidden within The Chronicles of Narnia, and I hope it reminds our followers of the powers of hope and faith and love, and I hope that at least for one person we might be a glimmer of light in the darkness. I do. I still like to believe TNOA can do good that is bigger than and outside of ourselves.
But if it doesn’t, then I still believe that one thing: it has done what it needs to. It gave me my best friends. God has worked through it already.
All of that to say the following to both my fellow members and all our followers who have watched us grow and loved the things we sometimes sporadically take time to create: I love you, and happy new year. I pray you all feel God’s presence abundantly this next year, and that you walk forward with all the courage you might need.
“Be just and merciful and brave. The blessing is upon you.” ~The Magician’s Nephew
~Mod Veriele ❤️
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.” —The Last Battle
Merry Christmas from The Name of Aslan! May your day be filled with Hope, peace, joy, love, and, above all, Christ.
The fifth candle of advent: CHRIST
"'It isn't Narnia, you know,' sobbed Lucy. 'It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?' 'But you shall meet me, dear one,' said Aslan. 'Are—are you there too, Sir?' said Edmund. 'I am,' said Aslan. 'But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.'" The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis
The fourth candle of advent: LOVE
"'Ah!' roared Aslan. 'You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again.'" Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
I just wanted to say that I love your Advent Narnia posts. They really help get me in the spirit of the season and remind me of my love for this beautiful book series.
Thank you so much!
The original "Hope" edit came to me rather spontaneously while I was sitting in church that Sunday, and I started pondering all the little images of hope within the Narnia stories: Lucy going back to the wardrobe, Caspian blowing the horn, the stone table breaking, spring blooming, the albatross appearing in the dark, Trufflehunter "holding on," Reepicheep's desire to find the utter east... And I know there are so many more examples that could have been used and referenced, but those are just a few of the images that made up the edit as I began to plan it in my head! I put it all together after lunch and posted it the same day.
I'm glad the inspiration struck me, because I have greatly enjoyed creating this little edit series. I love the themes of advent so much, and it is so fun to create something with them, especially something which features these beloved stories which point to those themes (and the giver of them) so well! <3
~Mod Veriele
The third candle of advent: JOY
"Thus Aslan feasted the Narnians till long after the sunset had died away, and the stars had come out; and the great fire, now hotter but less noisy, shone like a beacon in the dark woods, and the frightened Telmarines saw it from far away and wondered what it might mean. The best thing of all about this feast was that there was no breaking up or going away, but as the talk grew quieter and slower, one after another would begin to nod and finally drop off to sleep with feet towards the fire and good friends on either side, till at last there was silence all round the circle, and the chattering of water over stone at the Fords of Beruna could be heard once more. But all night Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes." Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
The second candle of advent: PEACE
"Both the children were looking up into the Lion's face as he spoke these words. And all at once (they never knew exactly how it happened) the face seemed to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a sweetness and power rolled about them and over them and entered into them that they felt they had never really been happy or wise or good, or even alive and awake, before. And the memory of that moment stayed with them always, so that as long as they both lived, if ever they were sad or afraid or angry, the thought of all that golden goodness, and the feeling that it was still there, quite close, just round some corner or just behind some door, would come back and make them sure, deep down inside, that all was well." The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis
The first candle of advent: HOPE
"Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before. That was how Digory felt. But it was no good trying to throttle this hope. It might—really, really, it just might be true." The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis: born on this day in 1898.
As our American mods and followers celebrate Thanksgiving this weekend, it is an ideal time to consider how grateful we are for Jack and the world that he created. From the truth he chose to tell with his stories, to the fact that we are friends today because of them, there are so many things about Lewis and his books that we are thankful for.
In honour of both his birthday and the holiday, we invite you to join us in celebrating by sharing the things that fill you with gratitude for Lewis, Narnia, or anything else he's written!
From those of us at TNOA, Happy Birthday, Jack! And, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.