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.…
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Tag Church History
Met. PHILIP Responds to the Jerusalem Patriarchate Transfer
If I live to be 100 years old I will never understand our wonderful pastoral Hierarchs in the Orthodox Church here in the United States. So we have excommunicated another bunch of our own. Wonderful! A few observations: What is…
Romanian Unity
Back in the 1940’s the Romanian Orthodox Diocese in this country was torn asunder and formed two diocese. For many years the relationship was, well, less than Christian. My diocese, the one that stayed part of the canonical Orthodox Church,…
Date of Easter
One of the most common questions I get this time of year is, “Father when is Easter.” Well that is not an easy question to answer. This year Orthodox Easter falls on the 27th of April while Western Easter is…
Mormons & Mitt Romney
Tonight former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is going to give a speech on his Mormon faith. I believe that one aspect of this blog is to inform it’s readers about topics in the news. I have been looking for a…
UN Vespers
As reported in a previous post I rolled on down to the Big Apple yesterday for a vespers service for the Orthodox folks at the UN. This service in an annual event sponsored by the Joint Commission of the Standing…
Back to School
About a year ago I applied for doctoral study at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. They have a very unique program. The doctoral study is done by research. You select a mentor from the faculty that has an interest in…
Russian Church to Annually Honor early British Saints.
MOSCOW. Aug 21 (Interfax) – The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church instituted a holiday to honor Christians who lived on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and were canonized before the 1054 schism that divided Christendom into…
More on Liturgical Language
One thing I forgot to mention in my other entry on this topic was history. One of the reasons that the church of the east spread the way it did was that it did not force the faithful to learn…
Patristic Look at Memorial Day
Thanks to the guys at the Way of the Fathers Blog, they give us a patristic look at Memorial Day.