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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