Monday, September 03, 2007

Fr. Seraphim Rose's 25th Anniversary of Repose

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September 2nd marks the 25th anniversary of the repose of (blessed) Serpahim Rose of Platina. I posted a short bio and commentary on the an...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Odds & Ends...

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The forthcoming election to fill the vacant Patriarchal throne of the Romanian Orthodox Church has fallen under the shadow of the past. Gov...

Women priests leaving the Episcopal Church?

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Drell's Descants has posted a request for information from Alice Linsley about female clergy who have left the Episcopal Church. If y...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Feast Commemorating the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist

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Today is the feast of the beheading of the Forerunner St. John the Baptist. Although called a feast it is in fact a day of strict fasting w...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Quote of the day...

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In an age when we see so much evidence of society becoming more and more self centered some people still remember that others inhabit this p...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Relics of the Holy Royal Passion Bearers Are Believed Found

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Various news services are reporting that the long missing remains of blessed Alexei, the son and heir of Russia's last Czar Nicholas II ...

Evangelicals swimming the... Bosporous??

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New Republic has an extremely good essay on the remarkable movement of Evangelical Protestants (including some big names) into the Orthodox...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

What's in a name?

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From the I am really not making this up file... Referring to God as Allah will bring Christians and Muslims closer together, the Roman Catho...

Orthodox Western Saints

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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has proclaimed a new feast to be kept on the third Sunday after Pentecost (old calendar). The...
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On whining about church

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Rod Dreher (aka the Crunchy Con) has posted a rather thoughtful article on people who spend all or a good deal of their time whining about ...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

Sharing the cup: Orthodoxy and inter-communion

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There is an interesting thread going on over at the Byzantine Forum. The topic began with someone posting to the effect that he is Orthodox...
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Monday, August 13, 2007

Memory Eternal: Brooke Astor

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Brooke Astor, the Grande Dame of New York High Society and one of the great philanthropists of the second half of the last century has repos...
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Odds & Ends... (mostly non-Orthodox)

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Most of the religious news of late has been from non-Orthodox confessions. Given what tends to make news that's probably not a bad thin...
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Orthodox worship and the language of the people

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"In peace let us pray to the Lord!" Given the recent news about the liberalization of the pre-Vatican II Mass (Tridentine) a recen...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Feeling a draft in the air?

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Lt. General Douglas Lute, a senior war advisor to President Bush opened a can of worms a couple days ago by suggesting in an interview with ...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

Some news from the OCA

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The report on the recent meeting of the Holy Synod has been published . Some of it is pretty routine stuff but there are a few interesting ...

Quote of the day...

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“We guarantee freedom of conscience and religion. The government shall protect canonical Orthodoxy from nationalistic expansion and legislat...
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Hang on...

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The scene on Wall Street in October 1929 On Thursday the stock market plunged almost 400 points in growing worries over the credit bubble th...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

For those who like their debates HOT...

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I respectfully point you to what is likely to become a very spirited (though I pray not polemic) debate over at Energetic Procession . The ...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

A Verdict

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The spiritual court trying Fr. Robert S. Kondratick the former OCA Chancellor has returned its verdict. (The announcement of the verdict wa...