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Guayabera Clergy shirt

1 August 2008 · by  Fr. Ernesto 11 Comments

The Almy company (http://www.almy.com/) makes what they call a Panama shirt. I would call it a guayabera (as would a Phillipine). Unless I remember wrongly, the difference between a Panama shirt and a Guayabera is that the Guayabera has two lower pockets while the Panama shirt does not. However, and this is yet another small […]

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Fasting for the Dormition

1 August 2008 · by  Fr. Ernesto Leave a Comment

What we call fasting among the Orthodox is called abstinence among Protestants. Abstinence is the abstaining from certain foods, which is what we do during our fasting periods. Fasting, for Protestants, is not only abstaining, but going the next step and diminishing the amount of food that you take in. It is what we would […]

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Christian Music to World of Warcraft

1 August 2008 · by  Fr. Ernesto 3 Comments

So, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdqsnGUtQV8 is a link to a YouTube video. It features the song Rebirthing by a Christian group named Skillet, but the video is done using World of Warcraft characters. Quite a creative way for Christian teens and 20’s to share the faith in a way designed to capture the attention of their age […]

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