409. The Role of Women in the Church: The witness of Three (let’s make it Four) Saints – Part Two

Forgive me again. This week I’m a day late. * Personal note: I’m ok, Carlos. As I said last week, I’m writing here about something I don’t know much about. A man pretending to understand women? Nonsense. (I hope that wasn’t a sexist comment…) Therefore in these two Posts we’re trying to learn directly from […]

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408. The Role of Women in the Church: Three Saints – Part One

You know I’m compulsive about getting these Posts out every Friday, but I’m two days late this time. I hope this doesn’t disturb the cosmic clock. If the Second Coming is now two days late, you’ll know who to blame. Introduction I was originally about to do something foolish here. I’ve done it before. I […]

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406. Happy Birthday Again, John the Baptist.

All this past week I was trying to write a Post which would profoundly point out, among other things, that: 1  In terms of contemporary politics, Orthodoxy is neither liberal nor conservative (*1) nor right wing nor left wing nor “middle of the bird” (*2 ). Orthodoxy is Traditional. We come from somewhere else entirely. […]

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404. All Saints of North America

Since I’ve been traveling all week, this is a re-run of Post 69 from June 8, 2018, unchanged except for the introduction, and to update some information.  All Saints’ Day Why do we Orthodox have a day to celebrate all the Saints? Because there are far too many to be commemorated individually. Orthodox Wiki lists […]

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401. Blessed Musa, Child of Rome, and Saint Brendan the Navigator

Here are two saints commemorated together on May 16. However, other than that they could not be more different. One a little girl called Home early. The other a builder and adventurer, forever on the move. Blessed Musa of Rome This is a story both very sad and very beautiful. Musa lived in Rome in […]

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