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Posted in saints and days on 27 October 2008 - 29 תשרי 5769
Reposted from a couple of years ago. Revised and Updated to include some other notes
iz that time of the year again when many folks will gang up on - really - those who let their kids dress up silly on 31 October. We will be bombarded with bad history and bad social science and [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy, saints and days on 19 October 2008 - 21 תשרי 5769
HAT KIND of people are we? When God gives, we wish to receive, but when he begs, we refuse to give. Remember, it was Christ who said: I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. When the poor are starving, Christ too hungers. Do not neglect to improve the unhappy conditions of the [...]
Posted in politics, saints and days on 7 October 2008 - 9 תשרי 5769
ODAY’S Feast of Saints Sergius and Bacchus called me to the reading of Boswell’s translation of The Passion of SS. Serge and Bacchus. During which reading I found the following line attributed to St Bacchus:
We serve Christ, the son of God, the eternal ruler, before whom ‘every knee should bow, of things in heaven, [...]
Posted in church geekery, saints and days on 4 October 2008 - 6 תשרי 5769
FTER His Repose, it would seem that one possiblity hitherto unexplored was the assumption of Cardinal Newman into heaven. A quest for relics has failed. Totally.
It seems an interesting irony to me. The pious Orthodox would see the existence of “incorrupt remains” as proof of his sanctity. We’ve still got bones [...]
Posted in saints and days on 4 September 2008 - 5 אלול 5768
ODAY IS THE Feast of the Prophet Moses (in the Eastern Rite). Earlier this week was the feast of Joshua. No - I don’t know why Joshua comes first. One of the things I love about the Eastern Calendar is the knowledge in the Church that the calendar doesn’t so much commemorate [...]
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