Yesterday I commented on the ringing of Orthodox bells. But, that put me in mind of an old Jesus People song. The lyrics were written by Annie Herring of Second Chapter of Acts, but they were popularized by Keith Green. How many of you remember them, or maybe still play them at Easter time? Hear […]
Bells on the censer, Orthodox and the Jewish Temple
Every Sunday when an Orthodox believer goes to the Divine Liturgy, he/she hears plenty of bells. In many Orthodox parishes, one can hear the ringing of multiple bells as the worship begins. Though this was not done in the Antiochian parishes in which I have been involved, it is done in the OCA parish to […]
Why there are multiple steps in medicine
The video above makes one ache. A woman wanting a child is given an chemotherapy/abortifacent drug by mistake because her first and last name are almost identical to the first and last name of a nearly 60 year old woman who does need to receive the drug for legitimate non-abortion medical reasons. This video gives […]
Snow stress syndrome?
As you probably know, people in the Deep South are unaccustomed to snow. After we emigrated to the United States, I grew up in the North, so I learned how to drive in snow, dress for snow, make snowmen, wax sled runners, etc. But, I was not aware of just how unaccustomed to snow the […]
The bottom line of the healthcare debate
One of the problems with the current arguments in the healthcare debate is that they do not deal with a reality that was present before a current Federal Law, a reality to which the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church (and the Pope) say we must not return to. What is that reality? Well, let […]
Memories and children
All children grow up. But, we who are parents spend so many years raising them that sometimes we forget that there was a time before we had children and that there will be a time after our children are grown. We may be parents until the day we die, but we only raise our children […]
Tea Party vs the Left
Father Orthoduck has no particular story and no particular message with the cartoon above. Well, except that he is glad to finally see a political cartoon written and drawn from a moderate viewpoint. Yes, the cartoon above is uncouth and insulting and unbalanced, etc. But, as a moderate, Father Orthoduck must admit that he laughed […]
Feast of the Presentation 2011
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple. It is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Orthodoxy. The Synaxarion has the following to say about this feast: When the most pure Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary’s forty days of purification had been fulfilled, she took her first-born Son to Jerusalem […]
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 […]
When politics gets ahead of Christian truth
Up until yesterday, Father Orthoduck was a subscriber to a pro-life newsletter that kept him up with pro-life oriented news. No, it was not Right-to-Life. But Father Orthoduck had been growing increasingly uncomfortable with the newsletter because more and more it would keep running anti-government articles, specifically anti-Obama articles. That is, rather than concentrating on […]
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