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So I think I finally got it – or at least had it for a moment – it comes and goes.  Sitting in a hotel room in Manila being bored off my backside (I hear it now, only boring people can be bored) and wondering what to do when the Maid gets here to clean…

A reading from the works of St Cyril of AlexandriaHe that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood, saith the Lord, dwelleth in me, and I in him. If a man take two pieces of wax and melt them, and pour the one into the other, they necessarily mingle ; so also, he that receiveth…

Birthday number half-a-century coming up in August. So fifty and one to grow on thanks to Amazon and any generosity you may feel inclined to claim…

OMG Yum. Now: let me be honest, these things don’t really taste like bacon. But they do very much taste like all the best parts of the Salty/Sweet goodness of bacon and pancakes.  It’s like the essence of the experience. Totally worth the purchase. But not very bacony.

If one Patriarch refuses to commemorate or commune with another because of a power struggle – eg, Jerusalem and Antioch – how long before that excommunication (which is what it is) becomes Schism? If one synod declares another invalid – eg, ROCOR and Moscow – how long before that Schism becomes irreparable? Rome : Constantinople…

If you’re interested in how to get odd habits living alone: click here. It’s well worth it: and it agrees with some of what follows: 10 Things I’ve Learned in Only One Week of Living Alone! Bye-Bye Claustrophobia! The easiest way to avoid claustrophobia when living alone is to leave the bathroom door open. Hearing…

My deepest apologies for being late: with the insanity of Pascha, followed by the Insanity of domestic relocation, I’ve not been posting the Daily Office. May of 2014 has been added to the Rite of St Tikhon although it is only good from this evening (10 May) forward.  I do not even have internet at the…

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Christ is Risen! In the Eastern tradition, regular hourly prayers are suspended through bright week (from Pascha until the following Saturday). During that time the following Paschal Hours are read for all the “minor” hours – The midnight office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None and Compline – during the day (Matins, Vespers are also in…

Just look, the gates of hell: they’re falling! Crumbling from the inside out! He’s bursting through the walls with laughter – Ha! Listen to the demons shout! https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Wil0PBylyW0&source=uds It is finished! He has done it! Life conquered death! Jesus Christ Has Won!

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/HMart4wXsI0&source=uds My song is love unknown,My Saviour’s love to me;Love to the loveless shown,That they might lovely be.O who am I, that for my sakeMy Lord should take frail flesh and die? He came from His blest throneSalvation to bestow;But men made strange, and noneThe longed-for Christ would know:But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed,Who…

From the Church of the Frescoes, near Valle Crucis, NC   On this day we commemorate the Institution of the Eucharist, the beginning of the on-going mystery of Christ in His Body, the Church. It all ties together now: the Body of Christ, present, feeding us who are Christ, active, serving Christ who is you, in…

So, I’m moving in May. Into my own place. For the first time since 2002. I need to ask for some help.  Nothing is on the list that isn’t needed – except the light saber. But anyway… please click on my Amazon Housewarming Registry!

Singing Matins and Vespers for Holy Monday we offer this verse: As th Ge Lord was coming to his voluntary passion,he said to his Apostles on the road,‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem,and the Son of man will be betrayed,as it is written of him’. Come then, let us too, with minds made pure,journey…