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An oldie, but a goodie, first writen several 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 [...]

Revised Common Lectionary: 1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13 Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34 Eastern Rite: Romans 2:10-16 Matthew 4:18-23 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts [...]

Christ is Risen! REIND Of this Blog and my own friend, Donald Schell, has posted a piece over at the Episcopal Cafe on the icon of the Dancing Saints at St Gregory of Nyssa Church. Donald’s article documents the process in which the community engaged on the way, debating and finally selecting the images painted [...]

OLLOWING (Coincidentally) On my earlier post of a Holy Card for Charles Darwin, BoingBoing invites everyone to Show Us Your Saints. In the tradition of the Dancing Saints at St Gregory’s Church I think it would be interesting to pull a list of “my” Saints. I note that these needn’t be “real” saints: just a [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 form John Chrysostom. [...]

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 historic events as [...]