Oh Taste and See
Friday, June 22, 2012

A Farewell

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Sometimes decisions come after a lot of painful deliberation and ambivalence. Others seem to present themselves naturally, all at once. I...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Thoughts on the last two months

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Greetings from the ever-sparser apartment in Crestwood. Craigslist has been claiming one piece of furniture after another so as to make ro...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

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From yesterday's liturgy -- we're here listening to a brief word from Metr. JONAH. It was a beautiful service. Thank you to any and...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Commandments of St. Basil the Great to Priests

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Study, O Priest, to make yourself a blameless worker, rightly dividing the word of truth. Never stand at the synaxis having hatred toward an...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Ordination, Mission

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In your kindness, remember me in your prayers; on March 18th, 2012 (Sunday of the Cross), I am scheduled to be ordained to the holy priestho...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

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"When one undertakes to examine Scripture in an idle, intellectual way, he creates hatred and quarrelling. Why? Because the intellectua...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Be Thou My Vision by The Purple Hulls

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One of my favorite groups (a trio of siblings) plays my all time favorite song (and lullabye to all three girls).
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Friday, October 07, 2011

The Intolerant Tolerant

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"...some of those who once called for tolerance and individual freedom have adjusted to the success of their programme and decided to s...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

A Bit of a Diversion

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The original was HERE ... I added us in.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Balance, Boundaries, Black Holes

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I said I wasn't "inspired" to write about seminary. Perhaps one should make that claim after the year has begun. The year ha...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

An Update for August, Abp. DMITRI, and "Psalms of David," Revived

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Greetings from the ravaged leftovers of a post-Hurricane-Irene Crestwood, NY. Seriously: the photo to the right is the worst of our part o...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Parish Assignment, Teaching, Conversion Stages

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First off, a blessed beginning of the Dormition Fast to all on the Revised Julian Calendar. A week ago today we went up to New Haven, CT and...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Worship Like You Mean It?

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I just...don't know. Really?!
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Leo

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Forgive the lack of updates; just a brief note to ask any and all to lift up Leo DuMoulin and his parents Justin and Anna , who attended sem...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Service

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The final few days of school, followed by the last week or two serving here and there, the final days of hospital internship...travel over t...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Ordination

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God willing, this Saturday, May 14, 2011, I will be ordained by Metropolitan JONAH to the Holy Diaconate at St. Sergius of Radonezh Chapel i...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Raised for Judgment - A Homily

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The following is the gist of the homily I delivered this morning in chapel; this is a speech-to-text version from last night.The gospel read...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Wonder and Truth, Fair and Balanced?

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The following is the second written contribution for my Systematic Theology class. It is almost double the maximum word count; I apologize ...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Ten Years

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I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church ten years ago today (liturgically speaking; as Pascha is a moveable feast, the actual calendar dat...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

"What Do I Do / When it Seems I Relate to Judas More than You?"

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An old fav popped into my head at liturgy this morning. Poor Old Lu, anyone? Two stichera from today's Matins Praises: "Judas the ...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Mystery of Bodies and Words

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A full week. The seminary community put forth a relatively strenuous effort this past week with, in addition to the normal lenten daily Mat...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Lift Up Your Eyes on High and See -- A Homily

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From this morning in chapel...one of the difficulties for me in putting this together was the fact that seminary guidelines constrain us to ...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

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"Listen to what the angel says: Therefore also that Holy Thing Which is [being begotten -- γεννώμενον ] of thee, in other words, that...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Children Grow

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My eldest did this today. (Taken from my project, here .)
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A Word on Metropolitans, Then to the Fast

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My wife told me about the OCA Truth blog the other day which means to serve as a corrective to the OCA News blog, which I sensed was kicking...
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Homily for Class -- Mt. 14.14-22

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A third post for the day: The following is my homily for Exegesis for Preaching. Constructive criticism is welcome. -----------------------...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Homosexuality and the Church

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(This blog post is for a short assignment in Systematic Theology; as such, comments have been turned off) Almost four years ago, Luke Timoth...
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