Just popping in to share this rather wondrous icon from OCA. At least, I think it’s rather wondrous. Orthodoxy remembers the Old Testament Saints in its calendar as well as those after Christ. Today is the Feast Day of the Prophet Jonah.
I’m reading this book at the moment, and am learning a [...]
Just popping in to regale you with the tale of the wonderful Sunday I had. I headed down to our nation’s capital, Canberra (about a two-and-a-half hour drive from my home), to see Singing Semele in her role as the Soul in Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues).
It was wondrous. [...]
A few things have convinced me I need to step back from my internet obsession for a while, as well as having a hard think as to where I’m going and what I believe.
I’ll still be around reading your blogs, but I’m going to stop posting on mine for a while.
See you soon. Take [...]
Deacon: Let us stand aright. Let us stand with fear. Let us be attentive, that we may offer the holy Eucharist in peace.
People: This is the mercy of peace, the sacrifice of praise.
Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit [...]
Happy Father’s Day Dad, and a Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there.
Thank you for your constant love, which has always been given unconditionally. God grant you many, many years!
The most moving of the weeks thus far.
We looked at a verbatim (record of a visit) that was deeply, deeply moving. Tears were welling in my eyes as it was being read. That gives an indication of how emotional it was. I’m an emotional person generally, but this got to me more [...]
Like Tractor Girl, I’d say it’s well worth a look.
Quite dark, as I recall the book was, and also more faithful to the Roald Dahl’s work (if my memory is holding up — it’s been a long time since I read it!) than the original movie. But also very, very humorous in parts: the [...]
From Word from the Desert:
Abba Poemen said that Abba John said that the saints are like a group of trees, each bearing different fruit, but watered from the same source. The practices of one saint differ from those of another, but it is the same Spirit that works in all of them.
Picture from BBC News
Every day I wake up and turn on the radio news: and it seems that things have got worse.
I have trouble comprehending it all. It is so hard to take it all in. Especially as it is the US. “Surely they’d be prepared and able to handle this,” I [...]
33 years today.
And thank you for all you’ve done for me. I know I haven’t been the best son at times.
God grant you many, many years!