Posted in Orthodoxy, The Journey to Antioch on Friday, 11 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have four podcasts from Ancient Faith Radio that I listen to “religiously”: Fr Thomas Soroka’s The Path, Jerome Atherholt’s The Saint of the Day, Steve Robinson’s and Bill Gould’s Our Life in Christ (in fact my devotion to OLIC predates AFR’s existence to c. 2002), and Kevin Allen’s The Illumined Heart. (Of course, [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy, The Journey to Antioch on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today is the calendar anniversary of my chrismation, 27 May, which arrives before the liturgical anniversay, Pentecost (which is almost a month later this year, 15 June, or Father’s Day). Such is the way of moveable feasts.
I would never have expected to have the sort of first year as Orthodox as I have had. [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Monday, 11 June 2007 | No Comments »
The third of my three Pilgrim Essays, The Journey to Antioch, has been significantly revised and updated.
Posted in Orthodoxy, The Journey to Antioch on Friday, 1 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the face of two distinct risks, I begin this post by saying: I’m quite happy with the fact that God ordained we would come into the Church on Pentecost. First of all, it’s simply stating a rather obvious, if not always accomplished, imperative: Anything God ordains should make me happy. But secondly, the statement, [...]
Posted in Anglicanism, Orthodoxy, The Journey to Antioch on Tuesday, 29 May 2007 | No Comments »
It happens that St. Augustine of Canterbury’s feast day was spread over this entire Pentecost weekend. On Saturday, Anglicans and Orthodox celebrated his feast. On Sunday, Rome celebrated. And yesterday (according to my St. James calendar hanging on my wall at work) his feast was celebrated on Traditional Western calendars (not sure who that includes).
Why [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy, The Journey to Antioch on Tuesday, 29 May 2007 | 14 Comments »
Wow.
That’s pretty much it: Wow.
But if you want more, go past the jump.
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Sunday, 27 May 2007 | 16 Comments »
Today, Anna and I were chrismated into the one, holy, catholic, apostolic and orthodox Church. Thanks be to God! The girls’ baptisms will wait for another day.
More details to come.
Pray for us, the newly illumined Benedict Seraphim and Genevieve.
Posted in Orthodoxy, Saints and Martyrs, The Journey to Antioch on Sunday, 27 May 2007 | No Comments »
Clifton: Benedict of Nursia (and here) [14 March] and Father Seraphim Rose [2 September]
Anna: Genevieve of Paris (stub @ OrthodoxWiki) and Genevieve of Paris and Icon of St Genevieve and St. Genevieve of Paris and Troparion and Kontakion to St. Genevieve in French and Moleben to St Genevieve in French [3 January]
Sofie: St. Nina the [...]
Posted in Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina, The Journey to Antioch on Friday, 25 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
To remember:
At the same time the Bishop [Nektary] warned the fathers not to fall into pride. When they visited him in San Francisco in 1975 he told them: “Don’t think that anything you have is by your own efforts or merit. It’s a gift of God.” In Optina, his brother Ivan Kontzevitch [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Thursday, 24 May 2007 | 3 Comments »
5. The Catechumentate, the Sunday of Orthodoxy (25 February 2007) to Pentecost Sunday (27 May 2007)
Our catechumenate was fairly informal. First of all, as I understand it, the catechumenate at All Saints itself is itself fairly informal: one worships and attends Sunday School, and works out the rest of the details with the priest. [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 | 13 Comments »
Because it has gotten back to me that I have given the impression that once my family and I become Orthodox, everything will change and we’ll no longer have any problems, and everything will be right as rain, I need to offer this clarification.
For the record: I do not believe that Orthodoxy will magically wave [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 | No Comments »
4. Encountering Living Orthodoxy, September 2003 to the Sunday of Orthodoxy (25 February 2007)
A Year of Testing and Struggle
Last year, 2006, was the most difficult year I’ve ever faced. We began the year with significant financial struggles. By God’s grace those had eased by mid-year. As part of those struggles, we were [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Sunday, 20 May 2007 | 17 Comments »
Well it says it in the bulletin **(pdf file), and Father Pat referenced it in his sermon: one week from today, in God’s mercy, my daughters will be baptized and chrismated, and my wife and I will be chrismated, as our household is joined to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Orthodox Church. Today [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Friday, 18 May 2007 | 4 Comments »
“. . . in order that through these things [the precious and great promises given to us] we might become koinonoi of the divine nature.” (2 Peter 1:4)
This past Sunday was the Sunday of the Blind Man, and marked the fifth liturgical anniversary of my conscious, intentional and settled turn toward the Orthodox Church. If [...]
Posted in The Journey to Antioch on Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | 3 Comments »
4. Encountering Living Orthodoxy, September 2003 to the Sunday of Orthodoxy (25 February 2007)
The Summer of True Philosophia
The midpoint of the summer of 2005 was the highlight of the year: Delaina’s birth on 3 July, the birthday, as it happened, of her late uncle, Delane Sykes. I had worked like mad in the spring to [...]
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