Fr. Stephen Freeman's most recent post ( HERE ) got me thinking about the epistle reading from yesterday’s liturgy. One part that stuck ...

For pictures of John's baptism mentioned in the last post, click HERE . Unfortunately, our camera battery died halfway through (not the ...

...we will, Lord willing, be baptizing the catechumen John tomorrow before Great Vespers for Pentecost; this will be followed the following...

"The body of the Lord is not a spirit, but it is spiritual, that is, it has no part in any coarseness , and is governed by the spirit....

It's been interesting to notice which songs have become bedtime traditions with Hope and, in contrast even now, with Kate. They're q...

First up, let me show you what served as a distraction for dang near everybody in liturgy this morning. As if this child did not already loo...

Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! A glorious Feastday of Feastdays to all!

"Judge those who harm Me, O Lord" -- appropriate for this Holy Saturday, the Sabbath of Sabbaths. From Fr. Patrick: [In the Upper...

"I will bless the L ORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth." "Oh, taste and see that the L ORD is go...

My sincere apologies for staying away for so long...though perhaps I should qualify that: lenten obligations (the kind that, in streamlining...

"Because the Lord had once said to Eve, In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, that sorrow is now removed by the joy which the ang...

Our Lord's cry of the committment of His Spirit into the hands of His Father--along with the rest of Psalm 30--show us the Passion ...

Back home from Amarillo; the services -- or lack thereof, as my granddaddy wanted it -- were good in the sense that his nieces and nephews ...

UPDATE: My grandfather entered the next life tonight around 8:30. Interestingly enough, Father had heard wrong somehow and put granddaddy...

55 Maxims (2007) Be always with Christ and trust God in everything Pray as you can, not as you think you must Have a keepable rule of prayer...

From the OSB : " Ps 29 speaks of the Resurrection of Christ, who is the End (v. 1), and together with Him, the resurrection of the Ch...

"The voice of the LORD..." The word voice in Hebrew, qol , is an onomatopoeic sounding of thunder itself. From the Word creating t...

Way back forever ago I started to go over the psalms of my namesake, David, in the Psalter. I dropped it almost just as far back ago. So I...

Fr. John Whiteford's posted a Pat Buchanan article I fully agree with HERE . Lord, have mercy on your servants.

Ironic (but not surprising for me) that, after calling for a vote for the cover of the Orthodox Study Bible , Old and New Testaments, I pro...

On a forum I frequent, a (very eloquent and courteous) Evangelical was making a case for the Eucharist being solely a memorial meal. I resp...

...Dr. Paul's got 21% of the popular vote. Way to go, "frozen chosen." ;-) Every little bit helps...

A lengthy discussion of eternal security has been started in the "Do the Orthodox Know the Gospel?" combox. Comments regarding tha...

Happy Feastday to all! Lucian tagged me with the following meme: 1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to p...

The following is a comment I left on Jim's blog HERE . It's a fine post he's written, and I'd recommend reading it for cont...

For those who haven't read it yet, Dr. Clark Carlton has written an Open Letter to Orthodox Christians on Behalf of Ron Paul 's cand...

Father Stephen Freeman has a post that got me thinking about the Eucharist, which is, more than anything else, what drew me out of where I w...

Those of you who know me will not be at all surprised that I absolutely loved this. "Time After Time" chokes me up every time I pl...

We were on the road for the long weekend, so I missed my usual yearly post for this. HERE is a nice, short memorial (and link) from someo...

Church school was last Saturday; seeing as how Theophany was the previous Sunday, I thought a lesson on baptism was apt, so...I came up with...

Father Stephen's done it again with an excellent post on wonder as the necessary component of a sound, sane, Christian life (read it HER...

UPDATE : I received in the mail today the four volumes of the Blessed Theophylact's Explanation (seen left). They're softbound, but...

A happy new year to all. Firstly, please pray for the citizens of Kenya who, following a neck-and-neck election, suffered rioting and, most ...

From those who deny them (my response to which is here in that combox) to those who celebrate them to those who limit them --gloriously--...