Posted in Current Events on Sunday, 17 September 2006 | 4 Comments »
[Note: The full text of the Holy Father's speech--here--was, not surprisingly, not even grasped by most of the folks reacting to it, especially the press. Read the excerpts below and then go back to the link just noted and read the full text of the speech. Then see if you can connect the [...]
Posted in Current Events on Thursday, 3 August 2006 | 16 Comments »
My late grandfather, Clifton F. Healy, drank iced coffee. Oh, he drank regular coffee, to be sure, but there was also that Mason jar of straight coffee sitting in the refrigerator, especially in the summer months. Since I didn’t like coffee, nor did I start drinking it till graduate school, it really made [...]
Posted in Current Events on Friday, 14 April 2006 | No Comments »
Go right now and read Seraphim’s Saving Zacarias. If you are celebrating Western Good Friday, it will lend an amazing cast to your meditations and observences.
And even if you’re not observing today as Good Friday, it is a wonderful fuel for prayerful meditation.
Posted in Current Events on Thursday, 6 April 2006 | No Comments »
Disturbing news from this Scripps Howard News Service article:
Most Americans don’t believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die, putting them at odds with a core teaching of Christianity.
The findings of a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll surprised and dismayed some of the nation’s top theologians since it seems to put [...]
Posted in Current Events on Friday, 13 January 2006 | No Comments »
For your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure.
Octopus vs Shark
(Opens in webbrowser and video applet starts running.)
Posted in Current Events on Wednesday, 4 January 2006 | Comments Off
A great comment by Mark Steyn:
The great thing about multiculturalism is that it doesn’t involve knowing anything about other cultures–the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures. It’s fundamentally a fraud, and I would argue was subliminally accepted on that basis. Most adherents [...]
Posted in Current Events on Monday, 19 December 2005 | 3 Comments »
Terry Mattingly has a good article up online: Church calendar Christmas Crunch.
You know all the ruckus about megachurches being closed on Christmas, a Sunday, this year? Seems its been a problem all along.
“Going to church on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day was something the Catholics did and all the people in those other churches [...]
Posted in Current Events on Saturday, 26 November 2005 | 3 Comments »
Welcome to the pagan holiday that celebrates the sin of aquisitiveness and purposefully entices the passions. Of course, it attempts to highjack the Christian holiday first by celebrating it for four weeks prior to the Christian holiday itself, and then by manipulating its religious adherents–known as consumers–by manufacturing emotions and having them seek out [...]
Posted in Current Events on Thursday, 19 May 2005 | 2 Comments »
In a Chicago Tribune article, we learn that NASA science uncovers texts of Trojan Wars, early gospel. If you like Greek, archaeology, and ancient history, this will make your day.
The scholars at Oxford University are not sure how it works or why; all they know is that it does.
A relatively new technology called multispectral [...]
Posted in Current Events on Sunday, 1 May 2005 | Comments Off
According to an AP report, Pope Benedict Prayed Not to Be Elected. In speaking to a German audience, Benedict said:
“As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that — in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me — I started to feel quite dizzy,” a smiling Benedict said, [...]
Posted in Current Events on Wednesday, 20 April 2005 | 1 Comment »
Tripp wanted to know why I, an Orthodox wannabe, was so overjoyed at the election of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. Isn’t this hypocritical, he wants to know? No. As I told Pastor Hudgins while in the li’l red theological short bus, my reasons for the satisfaction at the conclave’s outcome are [...]
Posted in Current Events on Tuesday, 19 April 2005 | 4 Comments »
Today, Cardinal Josef Ratzinger was elected Pope by his brother cardinals. Cardinal Ratzinger is now His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.
He greeted the faithful with these words:
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
The fact that [...]
Posted in Current Events on Monday, 10 January 2005 | No Comments »
The famed Russian dissident and author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells why the West’s smiling emptiness could never truly liberate the citizens of the Soviet Union:
But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could [...]
Posted in Current Events on Thursday, 11 November 2004 | No Comments »
Let me, today, thank you for your service to our country, and the sacrifices you’ve made for all of your fellow citizens.
I honor what you’ve done, and the honor and dignity with which you’ve done it.
Thank you.
Photo by Luis Sinco/AP
I invite my readers to join with me in offering prayer for our soldiers in [...]
Posted in Current Events on Wednesday, 10 November 2004 | No Comments »
On this day in 1775–before the U. S. of A. was even born–the Marines were born.
Happy 229th Birthday Marines! (note: pdf document)
And to my cousin: Semper Fi!
The Marines Prayer
Almighty Father, whose command is over all and whose love never fails, make me aware of Thy
presence and obedient to Thy will. Keep me true to my [...]
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