Date of Easter

The other day I posted a news story from the Irish Times on a fixed date for Easter. This is a very interesting question and one that I think deserves a little debate here on this site or on others.

I generally support the idea but I am not so sure that the secular government needs to involve itself in this. Yes it does affect people and their lives as the author states in his article but is this really something that the government needs to involve itself in.

The most interesting line in the story for me anyway is where the author speaks of the Vatican Council and a decision by the Pope to fix the date of Easter for the second Sunday on April. Okay good idea so far. The author claims that the World Council of Churches was set to ago along but that the Orthodox Church vetoed the idea. He claims the reason was so that it would not look like the Orthodox were being dictated to by Rome. I am not sure if this is true and perhaps a reader of these humble pages could enlighten us on this, but please back it up with facts and not just opinion, that is my job...

If this is the case then perhaps we need to revisit this idea and give it some serious thought. One of the most difficult things about being Orthodox in the Western world is Easter and the date. I serve a parish with many blended families, in fact I come from a blended family. Most of my family are Roman Catholics and therefore celebrate Easter by the Western Date. I would say, and I am going out on a limb here, that we the church of the East should when we find ourselves in the West, celebrate Easter by the date of the culture. The same would go of course for churches of the West that find themselves in the East.

In case you are unsure of how we calculate the date of Easter this s how it is done. Again if I am incorrect please feel free to make minor course corrections:

Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Okay with me so far? The difference come with the date of the equinox. On the Julian calendar, the calendar we use in the East for the date of Easter, the equinox is not a fixed date as it is on the Gregorian calendar that we use for everything else. The Gregorian calendar fixes the date of the equinox to March 21st hence the difference in the date of Easter.

Just for your edification the date of Easter for both East and West for 2010 is April 4th

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Tuesday's Show

Okay day 2 of the morning show is today at 7am listen online at www.fatherpeterlive.com

Today we look at the GM deal and weather or not the President of the United States should be forcing CEO's to resign and where it will all stop. What is next for the President and how much power is he actually trying to grab for himself.

I will also keep you up to date on the local news and sports with some great stories from around the area.

Let me know what you think and if there is something that you would like to hear.

Put a Little Spirit in your Morning

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Cus-O-Meter

This is very good news!

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Morning Radio

Well it is 6:30am and I should be on my way to the radio station to start the morning show but I wanted to pen, or rather type a little entry here first. Today I start the morning show on WESO 970 am in Southbridge. You can listen via live stream at www.fatherpeterlive.com

I am not sure how it will go but I have to talk for 2 hours. Those who know me will find that this should not be a problem at all. I would be interested in any thoughts you may have on the show and I will continue to post updates here and via twitter.com if you wish to follow. Okay off to the station.

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Nice

Hat Tip to St. Barnabas Blog

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Sunday of St. John Climacus

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on March 30, where his biography may be found. He is celebrated today because his book, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, is a sure guide to the ascetic life, written by a great man of prayer experienced in all forms of the monastic polity; it teaches the seeker after salvation how to lay a sound foundation for his struggles, how to detect and war against each of the passions, how to avoid the snares laid by the demons, and how to rise from the rudimental virtues to the heights of Godlike love and humility. It is held in such high esteem that it is universally read in its entirety in monasteries during the Great Fast.

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European Union must set fixed date for Easter

FERGAL QUINN
Fri, Mar 27, 2009

EU must be involved because this issue affects the secular lives of most citizens

LAST YEAR, Easter fell so early (March 23rd) that it caused a major inconvenience to most people. As the parents of school children will remember, their kids were hardly back after Christmas when it was already time for the mid-term break. And they started their Easter holidays even before St Patrick's Day.

Easter this year falls on April 12th. In two years' time, it will fall on April 24th. That is a 32-day gap in the space of four years. It is the difference between having Easter falling before winter is really out and having it when spring is well advanced.

That is a big problem for the tourism industry and for its customers – it means that every year they have a different product to sell, and every year the post-Easter early summer period starts at a different time.

Most people consider that having Easter as a moveable feast is a hassle, but assume it is a hassle they have to live with. They assume that there is some deep religious reason for setting the date of Easter the way we do, and that the churches would be opposed to any change.

Nothing could in fact be further from the truth. More than 40 years ago, the second Vatican Council made this clear when it declared that it had no objection to bringing in a fixed date for Easter. A little over a decade later, in 1975, the then pope Paul VI actually went so far as to propose a specific date – the second Sunday in April.

So why has nothing happened? Most members of the World Council of Churches were prepared to agree, with one glaring exception. The Orthodox Churches refused to go along with a proposal that might create the impression they were being led by Rome – not surprisingly, since they define themselves mainly by their independence from Rome.

At the same time, though, they apparently also made it clear that they would have no objection either to a fixed date for Easter – just so long as it did not involve following a proposal that was driven by the Roman Church.

And there the matter has languished for more than 30 years – a highly sensible suggestion that meets wide agreement, but which lacks a driver acceptable to all the religious interests.

Who will fill this gap?

I suggest the European Union is the ideal body to take this idea and run with it. The EU could justify its involvement because this issue is not just a religious one, but affects the secular lives of most citizens and is a barrier to the efficiency of most businesses.

Not alone that, but the EU has a magnificent track record in standardising basic matters like this, to the greater benefit of all.

* It brought about common starting and ending dates for the application of summertime right across Europe;
* It persuaded all European countries to use the same international prefix(00) for making international telephone calls;
* It created and implemented the GSM mobile phone technology that is universally used across Europe, and in large swathes of the world beyond;
* It has succeeded in abolishing passport controls across almost all of Europe (although, regrettably, Britain and Ireland still stand aloof from this great step forward).

By taking on the task of establishing a fixed date for Easter, the EU would be making a highly popular step – and so would be improving its own perception among the peoples of Europe. Let's do it!

Feargal Quinn is an Independent member of Seanad Éireann

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Church Events

Last night we held our Third Annual Ham Party at the church. Okay I am sure you are now asking yourself what on God's Green Earth is a Ham Party. Well simply put it is a meat raffle. We get like 25 hams and other assorted Easter type baskets and we spin a big wheel and people win stuff. Believe it or not it draws a crowd. We had about 50 people in for a spaghetti and meatball meal before and then Tom A spins the wheel and people start to win.

Paul was whipping people up in a frenzy as the wheel was spun, Nick was manning the bar and playing some tunes in between spins. Sam, Spiro, Paul, Vic, Charlie, & Carol teamed up to sell the tickets. Jim D was in the Kitchen along with his sisters Linda and Jeanette. I hope I have not left anyone out. I almost forgot the other Paul who sat with me at the money table and passed out the tickets. Paul is the parish treasurer and a great guy. It was a great night, lots of fun, and we made some money for the church.

We have a small church with very dedicated people and we rely on these events to help us minster. I look at it this way. We raise some funds for the church, it brings the community together. Not only the Church community but the community at large, and we have loads of fun.

I will say this, and in light of my post this past week I need to say this, when we need to we pull together and work hard for the church. Even if people could not stay for the entire night they came anyway. Maybe they just had some food, or perhaps they stayed for a little while and bought some tickets to win a ham, either way the church people came through again and the event was a big success. The faithful at St. Michael's never let the church down, when work needs to be done the faithful show up. We have a proud tradition and we are keeping it going.

Thanks to all who supported this event or any of our events it was a busy week.

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Beautiful Saturday

Another beautiful Saturday in the Village. Last weekend was just stupendous and now this weekend is working out the same way. I woke this AM and got some office work done. It is amazing how email piles up in my inbox. Sorry if you have been waiting for a response from me it will be on the way soon.

Last night I went out with some friends to a local eatery for some chow and good conversation. Met some old friends there and had a wonderful chat. Got to bed early and some much needed sleep.

Tomorrow after Liturgy we have a 40 day memorial of a senior member of the parish that died. In the orthodox tradition we recall the person on the 40 anniversary of their death as well as the first three years after that. Usually we have a meal in the parish hall but tonight we have an event there so we will be going to a restaurant for the meal. I have to dash right after for the Annual Kirking of the Tartans, more on this latter.

Monday I start the morning show on WESO 970 am here in Southbridge. I will be streaming the show so look for the announcement here and facebook.

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Patr. Bartholomew to White House meeting?

The Greek newspaper Kathimerini is reporting that President Obama will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew when he is in Istanbul on April 7 during a visit to Turkey. “However,” the paper said, “the US president is also due to hold a one-on-one meeting with the patriarch in the White House on November 3.”

The plans were firmed up when Archbishop Demetrios met with the president on March 25 during a White House reception in honor of Greek Independence Day, Kathimerini said.

Hat Tip AOI Blog

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Shame

I cannot stay silent any longer and I know this is going to anger some people but as Philipa reminded me in my post about Liturgical Language it is my job to make people feel uncomfortable so here goes.

In the last few days it was announced that President Obama has been invited by Notre Dame University to speak at the commencement. Now what is wrong with this you might be asking. Well the main reason is his stand on life issues. This president has not met an abortion bill he has not supported. Now you all know, or maybe you don't know, but I supported our president when he was running and I pray for him each and every day. But I don't like some of his policies and when they are at odds with what the church teaches then we cannot support them in fact we have an obligation to tell him he is wrong and protest.

Okay so this morning I an reading my blogs and I come across this post on the blog of the American Orthodox Institute with a video of Archbishop Demitrios of the Greek Archdiocese hailing President Obama and calling him Alexander the Great. Your Eminence I am ashamed of you for calling him this, in fact I think you need to apologize to each and every Orthodox person in the world for this remark. How dare you suck up to the President this way. You never miss an opportunity to have your picture taken, the other day you were sucking up to the Secretary of State another one who has not met an abortion bill she did not like. These people are anti life and for all accounts anti church and here you are calling him Alexander the Great. You should have called him Herod!

Why do we find it necessary to fall into the cult of these people. Like I said we need to pray for him and we need to support our government when we can but to make a statement like this is just absolutely beyond belief. Your Eminence you head the largest Orthodox Archdiocese in America and when you speak you speak for all of us as the head of SCOBA, don't get me started on that limp organization. You need to speak with authority and call him to task for his positions that are so against what the church teaches. While we are on this point why were you not on the stage with the Metr. Jonah and Archbishop Nicolae for the March for Life in Washington, DC not enough cameras around? We need your leadership on these issues and we need you to speak on these issues when you have the chance and not call our leaders Alexander the Great!

Orthodox bloggers I hope you pay attention and call him to task for this embarrassment and hold his feet to the fire. I am sure this post will get me in some trouble and I am sure there will be pressure to take it down and if it disappears you will know why. Read the article on the AOI blog and see what the Archbishop feels are important issues. I wish he put as much energy into life issues and poverty issues in the US as he does on events in Greece and Macedonia and other places.

I apologize in advance to my Greek friends this is not aimed at you only at what has transpired over the last few days.

Shame, Shame, Shame!

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Sunday of the Holy Cross

With the help of God, we have almost reached the middle of the course of the Fast, where our strength has been worn down through abstinence, and the full difficulty of the labour set before us becomes apparent. Therefore our holy Mother, the Church of Christ, now brings to our help the all-holy Cross, the joy of the world, the strength of the faithful, the staff of the just, and the hope of sinners, so that by venerating it reverently, we might receive strength and grace to complete the divine struggle of the Fast.

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Prayers Please

UPDATE: Larry was Elected today in the Second Ballot. AXIOS Bishop Elect Larry!

A very close friend of mine, Larry, is standing for election as the Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, New York today. I am not sure what time the election is but it will be held sometime today. There are seven well qualified candidates and I ask your prayers for Larry, his wife Jean, and his entire family. I have no doubt that Larry would make a great bishop. He has been the Chief Fire Chaplain here in Massachusetts for all of the years I have been involved in the Corps of Fire Chaplains and he is a man of integrity and a wonderful leader I am sure he is just what the Diocese of Long Island Needs.

In the extensive ramp up to the election today he, and all of the candidates, were asked many questions. I read over those questions and answers last night on the website of the diocese and the one that sticks in my mind is the question that ask about why you want to be bishop. The answer is classic but is classical Larry as well. He answers that he does not WANT to be bishop of Long Island he feels he is being CALLED to be bishop of Long Island! You go Larry!

That is what it is all about being called. I know that some people fight to become bishop and yes it even happens in our own Orthodox Church. Some feel they can do a better job then others can and other just want to pointy hat. Another example of this, I have a catholic friend of mine that I went to seminary with. Recently he was asked to leave his assignment and go to Washington, DC to Catholic University for studies in Canon Law. This is a great honor and knowing this man the way I do I know he did not seek this. In fact if you seek something like this you usually end up watching other go and you stay home. Anyway, when it was announced his so called friends were outraged that he was chosen and not them. Sad that they could not be happy for their friend and fellow priest, also sad that they are so filled with their own jealousy that they could not be happy. Oh well!

So please pray for Larry today and I will announce the results here as soon as I hear them.

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Spring

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Where have I been?

Well it has just been crazy around here the last few weeks. Lent is supposed to be a time when we slow down and have more time to pray and contemplate things, ya right!

In a previous post I mentioned that Archbishop Nicolae was here and all the events of that visit. After he left I took a few days off and returned to the family homestead and rested and saw my brothers that I don't get to see that often anymore.

Back at the church we had all of the activities of Sunday and the rest of the week to include St. Patrick's day and the radio program and all other media stuff. It has just been a crazy but wonderful week. And to top it all off the weather is getting better! Right now the sun is shining and it looks like it is going to be a great day. I plan to go outside today and rake some leaves and open the doors of the church and let the fresh air blow in. The flowers that the ladies planted around the church are starting to poke their little heads through the soil and will soon be in full bloom, and before we know it Easter will be here.

So that is where I have been. But we did get a Facing East Podcast recorded after being off since December of 2008! So look for that on another post on this site as well as on iTunes.

You may have also read on this site that I am going to the host of the morning program on WESO 970 am here in Southbridge. What a crazy ride this has been as well. I began with a Sunday program, Shepherd of Souls, last August and then a Thursday show a few months ago. Now I am taking over the microphone for the morning show starting on March 30th. What does this mean? Well first and foremost it means getting up at 5:00am everyday and being on the air for two hours each day as well. But it will be fun and I have some great support so it should be fine. I also understand once you get a groove going it become easier, I will let you know.

So off to do laundry and get the day started. I need another cup of coffee!

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Father Peter Live

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New Show

On March 30th I will be taking over the morning show on WESO 970 am the same station that runs Father Peter Live. The show will run from 7-9am Monday - Friday.

I need a name for the new show so if you can think of something let me know, leave me a comment here and I will consider it.

I am the host of the show but it will be regular morning drive radio, news, sports, information, all local stuff so let me know what you think.

The show will also stream online.

Cross Posted from www.fatherpeterlive.com

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Evangelism

We just had one of the best Parish Council meetings I can remember since I came here almost 5 years ago. It was progressive and nice and we got many things accomplished.

Evangelism is one of those things that keeps coming up. We have a great product, Orthodoxy, but we do not know how to sell it. I know already some of you are made at me cuz I said product and sell, but the harsh reality is that it the name of the game.

So what do we do to sell the faith? We have it all just no one knows about it so how do we do it? What are other Orthodox, or not Orthodox people doing I need some ideas because I am fresh out. I am asking the readers of this blog to come to my aid here and help me come up with a plan to get butts in the seats.

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Grand pan-Orthodox synod update

This idea has been floating around for many years and perhaps we are finally going to get some resolution to many problems that have come up over the years.

In the Orthodox world a synod of all the worlds bishops is very rare and I cannot for the life of me remember the date of the last one but it was decades ago. Many questions need to be answered including the churches in the New World, yes that would be us.

Here is an update from a blog I just found. Byzantine Texas, check it out it is a great blog.

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Sunday of Orthodoxy

Yesterday we had a wonderful Liturgical celebration here at St. Michael's. As I mentioned in a previous post, His Eminence Archbishop Nicolae was in attendance at the church for a pastoral visit. We also took the occasion to honor two parishioners and he elevated me to the rank of Protopresbyter.

The first honoree was Mr. Alexandra Malisory. What a wonderful lady that always greets everyone with a simile. She turned 100 this past week and His Eminence was on had to say Happy Birthday. We gave her an Icon of St. Michael in honor of her years of service to the church. She says that toast and feta cheese in the morning kept her alive all these years. Her daughter told me a wonderful story about a phone call they received this past week. The local paper had done a profile of her and a man in his 60's read the story to call and tell her what an inspiration she was to him. It seems this man had been in a funk for a few years and did not want to leave the house. He was sad because of his age and felt that his life was over, well at 100 she is still going. He read the story and it broke him right out of the funk, and he got out of his chair and will start living again. You never know who you will reach.

Next we really surprised Mr. Paul Porra. Paul is not only a parishioner but a good friend. Him and his wife Carol have really taken me in and we are, what I call, camping buddies. In fact we have a few camping trips planned already. We honored Paul for his years of service on the Parish Council as well as a delegate to our Archdiocese Congress. He is a very giving man who is always here at the church when we need something. He was given the Archdiocese Cross for Lay people, the highest award the Archdiocese can give to a layman.

Honoring people for the work they do is a wonderful thing, it is nice to recognize people and to honor them for their years of service. As our church struggles with the future direction it is important to remember and honor the past as we move into the future.

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Pray for me

What a week we have coming up here at the church, here is the Schedule:

Today - Lent Retreat from 11:30 - 5pm followed by Vespers
Tonight His Eminence arrives for a pastoral visit. Had to send a parishioner to get him at the airport.

Tomorrow - Sunday of Orthodoxy Liturgy with His Eminence, celebration of a parishioners 100th birthday, recognition of several parishioners for work they have done, small meal after church in honor of said people. Dinner with the parish Council and Archbishop at 5:30pm, then I hope sleep!

Monday - Meeting with Archbishop in the morning then the clergy from the Deanery arrive for a two day series of meetings here at the church. So include Tuesday in that mix as well with a trip to the airport with the Archbishop.

Wednesday - Breakfast meeting at 6:45, fire chaplains meeting from 10-2pm, presanctified liturgy and dinner at 6:30.

Thursday - Father Peter Live at 12pm.

Man I thought the clergy only worked one day a week! Going to be long and tiring but I will love every minute of it. So say a prayer for me and I will for you!

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Forgiveness Sunday

I know this is a week late, forgive me!

Sermon Audio

The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and the transgressing of the divine commandments. For the first commandment that God gave to man was that of fasting, which the first-fashioned received but did not keep; and not only did they not become gods, as they had imagined, but they lost even that blessed life which they had, and they fell into corruption and death, and transmitted these and innumerable other evils to all of mankind. The God-bearing Fathers set these things before us today, that by bringing to mind what we have fallen from, and what we have suffered because of the insatiety and disobedience of the first-fashioned, we might be diligent to return again to that ancient bliss and glory by means of fasting and obedience to all the divine commands. Taking occasion from today's Gospel (Matt. 6:14-21) to begin the Fast unencumbered by enmity, we also ask forgiveness this day, first from God, then from one another and all creation.

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Gossip

I will never understand this need that some people have to gossip. Is it that they do not have enough to do or that their life is so filled with misery that they have to fill other peoples lives with misery? Are they so shallow that this is all they can concern themselves with? If you want to know what I think or what I said, ASK ME! Oh wait that is too difficult why go right to the source when you can make up your own stories to fill your shallow lives! Yes I am angry, and disappointed. Being a priest is hard enough without all of this made up stuff to add to it. The biggest one that still goes around town is that I did not visit someone in the hospital. This has caused me no end of pain and suffering when I clearly went. But the truth does not seem to matter to some people.

I have lost count the number of times I have been a target of such gossip and how destructive it is not only to me but to the person who is doing it. Gossip my friends plain and simple is a SIN, oh no I mentioned a SIN.

This gossip has ranged from things I have supposedly said, thoughts I supposedly have, one time there was a rumor that I had become the bishop of Alaska! I have to admit I kind of liked that one, but I did not even know I was a candidate.

We have less a week into lent and already the wheels have come off the wagon. Now I have to spend my day putting out fires once again. We have a beautiful day planned with Dr. Al Rossi from St. Vlad's about living Lent in the Family, and I am going to spend my day on this nonsense with the very people who should be here listening to this retreat.

I have many things on my mind including a visit from my Archbishop this weekend and hosting a deanery meeting and now I have to deal with rumor and innuendo. All I have to say is get a life and leave mine alone!

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Meditation of His Eminence Archbishop NICOLAE at the start of Great Lent 2009

Ten weeks before Pascha, the Orthodox Church enters the Triodion, a season completely set apart in the ecclesiastical year. It is a preparation in different steps, a spiritual ascent toward the Resurrection of the Lord. Firstly we spend three weeks before the Paschal Lent, a period in which we are guided toward humility, as the publican of the parable, toward return to the heavenly Father as the prodigal son, and taking stock of our actions and thoughts, realizing that we will reach the Judgment before the Lord. Secondly we step into Lent, a season of abstinence from foods that originate from animals, and abstinence from bodily passions, both completed by spiritual pursuits. The special food consumption makes no sense in and of itself, unless it is completed through labor of the soul, prayer, repentance, and works of mercy.

St. Ignatius Briancheaninov, in his sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, leans toward this spiritual understanding of Lent. And his point of departure is a statement of the Savior, different than the words He gave as answer to the temptation of the evil one on the mountain of Karanthania. Quoting St. Ignatius: “The struggle of lent is not only of the body, it is useful and beneficial firstly for the mind and the heart. But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and drunkenness. The Savior has revealed through these words a consequence of our unreasonable use of food and drink, an unprofitable consequence for the soul. Gluttony of the stomach weighs down the heart with rudeness and insensitivity, and the mind lacks its freedom and spirituality – man becomes solely a physical being.”

St. Ignatius tells us that the struggles of lent refer to the body, but the benefit of lent pour out upon the heart. The soul becomes heavy together with the body, and the heart becomes hardened. Eating inappropriately and without moderation, we condemn ourselves to absence of sensitivity of the heart and to spiritual misunderstanding of our lives and the world. We lose our sense of existence on earth, because food, or matter in general, surrounds that which is non-matter and it alters its function of knowing.

If the command to keep lent was heard by Adam in Paradise and was disobeyed, lent is all the more necessary after the fall of the first man. St. Ignatius continues: “We are nailed to the earth, we are bound to it with the entire soul, not just the body; we have become completely of the body, lacking spiritual feeling, unable of heavenly ponderings. The command to keep lent is again revealed as the first command, absolutely useful for us. Only through the help of lent we are able to tear away from the earth! Only through the help of lent we are able to withstand the powerful attraction of the earthly passions! Only through the help of lent we are able to break our bond to sin! Only through the help of lent our reasoning is able to rise up from the earth, facing high toward God!”

The Church Fathers have called lent the foundation of all virtues, because through lent our mind is kept in its appropriate purity and awareness, and the heart is kept in its appropriate astuteness and spirituality. He who shakes the foundation of virtues, shakes their entire building.

Let us be attentive to these words of the Church Fathers and let us keep the lent so that we may become worthy of its fruits!
† NICOLAE

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Crazy Week

It is only Wednesday and this has been a crazy week. If you follow me on Twitter you know that I have been filling in on WESO for the morning show whilst the usual host is on vacation. This has been fun and exhausting. It brings me back to my days of college radio on WENC at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy.

Well today is my last day and in fact I have to leave in about 15 mins to get to the station. I have two guests today. Sen. Richard Moore will be calling and and the Fire Inspector, Lt. Steve Lavoie from the Southbridge Fire Department will be in the studio around 8am.

On top of all of this we are having a parish retreat day, a visit from the Archbishop on Sunday, and a clergy meeting Monday night and Tuesday, all here at St. Michael's so things will be busy the next few days.

I promise to keep posting and I owe all of you my homily from Sunday and a post on forgiveness and I owe one to the group Lent blog I am participating in as well. More on that in another post.

Off to the studio!

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