5 December ~ Savas the Sanctified
This Saint was born in 439 in Moutalaska, a small village of Cappadocia. He entered the arena of the monastic life from childhood and was under that master trai...
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Top 10 Posts for November
Here is a list of the most visited posts for the Month of November Priest Dismissed for Wearing Cassock The Priest and Obedience Orthodoxy and Contraception My ...
On the Advantage of Patience by St. Cyprian
The command of our Lord and Master which will save us is: He who endures to the end will be saved. And, If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, ...
4 December ~ The Great Martyr Barbara
Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia and lived during the reign of Maximian. She was the daughter of a certain idolater named Dioscorus. When Barbara ...
4 December ~ St. Alexander Hotovitzky
Our righteous father Alexander Hotovitzky (or Hotovitsky), hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America, was a Russian who came to the United States...
Quitting
If you are a long time reader of these pages or someone who knows me personally then you know of my love for reality TV. Not all reality TV mind you but some. O...
Unemployment
I was awake most of the night thinking about the situation with unemployment. Congressional Republicans are refusing the increase the time allowed for one...
Great Union Day of Romania
On December 1, 1918 1,228 elected representatives of the Romanians in Transylvania, Banat, Crisana, and Maramures convened in Alaba Iulia and declared by unanim...
A social media Reformation?
By Terry Mattingly As every avid Twitter user knows, there are only 140 characters in a “tweet” and that includes the empty spaces. The bishops gathered at the ...
Farming in America
I just finished watching the movie Country staring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard. The movie is about an Iowa farm family and the struggle against making a...