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Youngest daughter now married

For those of you who have been wondering at my abscence, it was because last week was our youngest daughter’s wedding. Therefore, we were quite occupied with all the inevitable last minute details. One of those details is that last week, two days before the wedding, I had the opportunity to chrismate our daughter into the Church. Her chrismation is recorded at a Greek Orthodox parish. This means... [Read more]

Southern Baptists pass resolution to help settle immigration debate

From the Associated Press: NASHVILLE, Tenn – (AP) – The Southern Baptist Convention has passed a resolution advocating a path to legal status for illegal immigrants. The resolution was passed on Wednesday at the annual meeting of the nation’s largest protestant denomination in Phoenix. It also calls on Southern Baptists to reject bigotry and to minister to all people, regardless... [Read more]

Adventurers and relief valves

Adventure, pioneering is held in high esteem–because, as a wise reformer on old Earth once said, it keeps the adventurers far away from home. — Elizabeth Moon. “New World Symphony,” Moon Flights. Ed. Marty Halpern. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2009. This phrase in a science fiction book set Father Orthoduck to thinking. It is not the first time Father Orthoduck has... [Read more]

Fruit and vegetable harvests lower than expected

I found an article that might interest you, since it looks like your vegetable and fruit prices are going to be going up. Below are a few quotes from the article: Georgia, Alabama, and Utah are the first states to follow in the footsteps of Arizona, passing laws that expand the power of local police to check the immigration status of residents. Legislators who back the new laws say they’re... [Read more]

An aside about servicepeople supporting freedom

Yesterday, Father Ernesto continued his discussion on Kuhn and a changing paradigm shift. He will continue that tomorrow with a small discussion on post-modernism and how that has impacted our view of truth. However, he brought up an event from 1946 nicknamed the McMinn County War. There is no recent comparable event, but it is certainly true that there still continues to be a strong feeling in America... [Read more]

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Holy Week penitents

Image licensed from Getty Images Before you become worried, the image at the right has nothing to do with the latest Ku Klux Klan meeting. It is actually from a Lenten tradition found in several parts of the non-Orthodox world. The people you see pictured there are penitents, and their practice dates from several hundred years before the presence of colonies in the Americas, all the way back to the... [Read more]

Freedom for us, dictatorship for others

Father Orthoduck will make this post very brief. The comic above illustrates an attitude that is all too common in USA history. Beginning in the 1950′s, USA political doctrine was that it was safer to support friendly dictators than it was to take a chance on unknown freedom movements. Thus, in the post-World War II period, the USA began to interfere in the national life of countries in Latin... [Read more]

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Saint Eulalia of Mérida and child martyrdom

Many Western saints are not known to Eastern Christians, just like many Eastern saints are not known to Western Christians. I am talking about the saints that both the East and the West have in common because they come from the time of an united Christendom. Yesterday I mentioned that for various historical reasons, some shared celebrations fall on different days in the East and the West. The saint... [Read more]

Is the question justice or convictions?

I am quoting from part of an article that came out on Fox News today (11/18/2010): The White House is pushing back against criticism of its commitment to prosecuting some terror suspects in civilian courts after a federal jury convicted former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani on only one of 285 charges. Ghailani was convicted of conspiring in Al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies... [Read more]

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Spanish Nativity troparion

Gracias a un blogger compañero, incluyo este video de un tropario navideño. Las palabras del tropario sigen. Thanks to a fellow blogger called OrthoCath, I include this video of a Nativity troparion in Spanish. Following are the words of the troparion. ¡Belén, prepárate que ya, ha sido abierto el Edén! ¡Que te dispongas, Éfrata: porque la vida floreció de la Virgen en la gruta! Su vientre... [Read more]