http://evlogeite.com An Eastern Orthodox Blog Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:30:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, as anyone can plainly see, I haven't done anything with this blog in well over a year, and precious little in the year before that. There is a reason, although you must decide if it is good or not. I started this blog about five years ago, at about ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=293 Thanks to Fred M. of our parish, we have wonderful pictures of the consecration of our new property for St. Elizabeth parish in Woodstock, Georgia. It was a very cold morning. This picture shows the frost on the ground before the we started the consecration. The cross had been ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=291 This is a homily I gave on Sunday, February 3, at my parish. Unless you go to my parish, you will likely be disappointed. (Well, actually, I suppose even if you went to my parish, you might have been disappointed, but let's pretend otherwise.) In any event, ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=290 We are at the midpoint, more or less, of a deeply festive season. We have welcomed the Infant Jesus into the world, in the cold silence of a Bethlehem night. We have joined the shepherds and the angels, the Magi and the beasts of the field, in adoration ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=288 Congratulations, belated as they may be, are in order. My spiritual brother, Michael Rustick, was ordained to the diaconate on December 22 at his home parish in Rahway, New Jersey. The only picture I have seen of the event was taken with a camera phone immediately after the ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=286 There is little that has caused such division in the Christian world than the issue of wealth. An entire school of religious thought, known as liberation theology, infected parts of the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s, and continues to this day, teaching that the wealthy are simply instruments ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=283 The Apostle and Evangelist John tells us, very simply, that “God is love.” We take this as an article of faith, but sometimes it is good for us to be reminded of how deep, how limitless, that love is. Our gospel today gives us that opportunity, for in ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=282 I am back home, slightly woozy but none the worse for wear. The Great Unbonding was a failure, in the sense that Olga and I failed to unbond, but it was a success in the sense that we got her settled into her apartment, and had some fun doing ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=281 Some of you may remember that earlier this summer Olga and I concocted a brilliant scheme, designed to get her moved to California to start grad school, while at the same time making it as excruciating as possible so that everyone would be happy with the immense geographical distance between ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=280 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a marriage feast.” This is a common enough image in the Scriptures. We find it in several places, and hear it on more than one occasion during the year. While we normally think of a wedding as a joyous occasion, however, when ... http://evlogeite.com/?p=279