494. Fasting during November and December?

Alright, class, please hold up your hands: Who among you will be keeping the full Advent (Nativity) Fast, which begins today, November 15 and lasts till Christmas? As set forth by my Antiochian Archdiocese, the rule is as follows: Throughout this period, we abstain from meat, poultry, eggs and dairy. According to the Patriarchate of […]

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493. 1) Donald Trump’s Religion, 2) Why do the Evangelicals love him? 3) The “Catholic” Connection, 4) Added Bonus: “The Bodiless Powers of Heaven”

Today is the Feast of the Bodiless Powers of Heaven, the Holy Archangels. I’m not going to talk about that today, but at the very bottom of this Post you can access two Posts I wrote about them seven years ago. ____________________________   I’d like to drop this subject, but after all I wrote last […]

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491. “Paying the Devil his Due”

Hallowe’en… Despite what some misguided folks say, Hallowe’en has nothing to do with Satan and his cohort. I’m just using Hallowe’en as an excuse to talk about the Evil One. Hallowe’en itself is a harmless holiday…promoted by dentists? or so I’ve always suspected. Back in my day, Hallowe’en consisted only of kids in costumes going […]

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490. Orthodoxy: a stable “Peoples’ Church” in an unstable democratic “peoples’ society”.

What? a Friday Post arriving the following Tuesday? I’m sorry if I’ve thrown the cosmic calendar out of whack. All I can say is that recovering from surgery (which is going very well, thank you) seems to have thrown me out of whack. God and the angels willing, this week’s Post will arrive this Friday […]

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