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 ...
Author: Fr. Peter
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...
The Day After
So here it is the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday here in US, and now that we have given thanks for all those things that God has blessed us with we ar...
A Thanksgiving Blessing
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21 November ~ Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
Today let us the crowds of the assembled faithful celebrate a spiritual feast: let us reverently praise the Virgin Theotokos and child of God, as she is brought...