513. Saints who get lost during Lent: Saint Innocent of Alaska: Apostle to North America, and Metropolitan of Moscow – a man who did it all!

  Saint Innocent, March 31 Don’t get me wrong – but I am tempted to dislike people like him. I knew some in high school and college: guys who did everything well. Bundles of energy and enthusiasm who were excellent scholars, good at sports, had good looks, attracted the girls, then went on to marry […]

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512. Saints who get lost during Lent: The Archangel Gabriel and other Invisible Beings

Worldly Introduction which has nothing to do with Gabriel I do not intend this Blog to be chiefly religious/political commentary but, on the other hand, I do not want it to be irrelevant to the world we’re living in at this moment. Therefore, before we speak of Heavenly things, I want to mention three earthly […]

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511. Saints who get lost during Lent: Saint Benedict the Righteous [and the Moderate]

Before we begin, three things: 1  You can find my old Post on Saint Patrick at the bottom of this Post. 2  I should have mentioned this earlier: If during Lent you would like to pray some of the daily Offices of the Church – Matins, the day Hours, Vespers, Compline – here is a […]

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510. Saints Who Get Lost During Lent: Saint Gerasimos and the Lion

      Not that the saints themselves get lost. They are always on course, and sometimes they travel so far into the Presence of God that we lose track of them. However, these next few Posts will be about the saints we lose because their commemorations fall during Lent, when so much else is […]

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509. The Church’s Last Minute Instructions as we go into Lent

Do we want to keep a good, holy Lent? No problem. In this Sunday’s Scripture readings, the Church tells us exactly how to do it. If you find this Post suspiciously familiar, that means you read my Forgiveness Sunday Post two years ago and have a good memory. I’m proud of you. This is a […]

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