Father’s Day

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Today was a great day at church! We had a small but mighty crowd and a nice extended coffee hour after the Liturgy. For the last three years Vasile has been our cantor. He has been here on a Visa from Romania that the church sponsors. He has run into a little snag and he has to return to Romania for a little time. Today at the coffee hour we wished him well and asked him to come back to us very soon.

They also surprised me with a birthday cake. My birthday is not for another week but we will be celebrating Liturgy with our friends at St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church before their annual festival so we will not be having Liturgy at our place on Sunday. I know very confusing.

I continue to follow the events in Iran and will be speaking more about it on the radio show on Monday so tune in 970 am or www.fatherpeterlive.com

Another View from Iran

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I have to admit I am caught up in all of happenings in Iran. If you follow my tweets or my Facebook page you will know this for sure. But I have also been reading the blogs and today, thanks to Rod Dreher’s blog Crunchy Con he has put me on to an Op-Ed in the New York Times written by Roger Cohen from the streets of Teheran. “A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets” is a great article and I suggest you give it a read.

Amazed

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I do not know why this still amazes me. I was in a conversation tonight and someone actually said the following, “the people who put Barack in office are getting what they deserve” I will never understand how people think. How can you not support the person who is the President of the United States? I don’t approve of everything the President Obama has done nor did I support everything that President Bush did but the president deserves our support and our prayers by the way.

I will never understand the absolute hatred the the right has for the left and the left has for the right. How about we just all be Americans for awhile and see if we can get things going again. Stop blaming everyone for all of your problems and get off your ass and make your little part of the world a better place.

Right now people are dying in the streets of Iran to become free, or as free as they can get. They stopped sitting around complaining and they are doing. I am not saying we need to take to the streets in a bloody way, but if you don’t like the way things are going in your town run for office, go to council meetings, write letters to the editor if your not willing to do that then just shut up I am tired of listening to you whine.

The World is Starving

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Brian McLaren is someone I have grown to respect over the last year or so and I have read many of his books and read his blog on a regular basis. Today he has a post on the new report that has been released by the UN on the fact that one in six people in the world is starving. This is an outrage and something that the rest of us should feel outrage about as well.

Here is a link to the report and a link to Brian’s book Everything Must Change

Bishops Run Amuck!

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I usually do not wade into the inner workings of other diocese but this just takes the cake. It seems that the latest round of bishops that are unwilling to give up some power or to act like Christians have struck close to home. I have a good friend, I call him that because we went through some stuff together, he went to seminary and is now told that his ordination has been canceled.

A few years back I was in a diocese and the bishop did the same thing to me two weeks before I was to be ordained a deacon. So I know how he feels. This is just another in a long line of bishops not behaving very well. I am sure others feel they did the right thing but I feel otherwise. It is time that we have unity in the country or there will be nothing left to unify. Bishop are running amuck and things need to change.

Read the story here

Iran Interview

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Cross Posted from http://www.wesomorning.com/

Joining me on tomorrow’s show during the 8:00 hour will be Jeff Addicott, director for the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law he will be on the show to explain the Iranian election system and what the results mean. “Iran’s revolution in the late 1970’s replaced a secular government with a religious dictatorship headed by Islamic mullahs. These mullahs control all aspects of the national life – legal, social, government. For example, the mullahs screen all candidates to determine who is even allowed to ‘run’ for any elected office. In short, any election is rigged from the very start.” Addicott says, “Ahmadinejad probably did win the popular vote but there is no doubt that all the counters’ were handpicked by his people. He is a dictator. The ‘election’ process is for domestic and international consumption – much like the ‘elections’ held for Saddam Hussein.”

So tune in tomorrow from 7-9am WESO 970 am or http://www.fatherpeterlive.com/ to listen online.

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