Father Orthoduck wishes to throw a shout out to the French. Happy Fête de la Fédération. The Storming of the Bastille in Paris occurred on 14 July, 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven prisoners at […]
Archives for July 2009
What is an average church?
I am going to quote part of a post from another blog today. If you want to read it in full, you will need to go to Internetmonk to read it all. I highly commend the article. It will make you think a lot. And, I hope you remember your high school math as you […]
For the Russian Orthodox among us
Forcing yourself to run the race, part 03
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. We get so caught up in our […]
Forcing yourself to run the race, part 02
Sometimes we are so busy disagreeing with one another that we forget how often we give very similar sounding advice or how often we handle a given situation in very similar ways. I have before argued for the Orthodox view of faith and works, but this time, I would rather look at how often we […]
Forcing yourself to run the race, part 01
One of the problems with a certain type of Christian theology is that it is so afraid that we might try to earn our salvation that it essentially destroys growing in holiness. At the other end is a certain type of Christian theology that almost measures its every act to see whether the person is […]
Patriarch of Russia visits Turkey
From a Turkish news service: Turkey’s Premier Erdogan Receives Patriarch Kirill Published: 7/6/2009 ANKARA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Patriarch Kirill of the Moscow Orthodox Church in Ankara on Monday. The meeting lasted for nearly one hour. Head of the Religious Affairs Department Ali Bardakoglu will also meet with Kirill on Monday. […]
Catholics becoming Protestants thinking
The quote below comes courtesy of Fr. Orthohippo. However, as you read it, look back at the series that I have just finished, “When is a good Orthodox (or Catholic) not a good Orthodox?” If you notice, one of my conclusions was that both the conservative and progressive “Orthodox” and “Catholics” had adopted Protestant-style thinking. […]
A year and a day
Today I had one of those sad duties that priests have to do every so often. I was present in a courtroom to watch someone being sentenced to one year and one day in jail after violating his probation. He is forty-some years old and I was sitting next to his 75 year old mother. […]
You mean the great O listens?
The headline reads, WHITE HOUSE MAY CAVE ON PUBLIC OPTION However, if you click on the link, you will find that it goes to a rather sedate Wall Street Journal article which has a different headline. The headline on that article is quite different. In fact, that article is a rather humdrum article that says […]
