There is no reason for this other than the sheer pleasure of the hymn.
Archives for December 2009
Sunday of the Geneology 2009
Today is what is called the “Sunday of the Genealogy” in Eastern Orthodoxy. Today is the Sunday before Christmas, the Sunday in which we read the genealogy of Christ from the Gospel according to Matthew. We are not the only ones who read one of the genealogies before Christmas. More than one Christian group does. […]
Remember the poor
“. . . remember the poor . . .” from Galatians 2: Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem . . . when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter . . . and when James, Cephas, […]
Tell it again, Sam, uhm, Pete, uhm, whomever
The slightly grubby man–rarely, if ever, a woman–comes up to you with the story above. And, you have heard it before more than once. It is one of the oldest stories used by panhandlers. It is repeated over and over because it is one of the more successful stories. In fact, Father Orthoduck has heard […]
Good enough for government work and science – part 03
Science is not perfect. It is a system of approximations. People involved in science keep trying various explanations for what they observe until they find an explanation that makes sense out of what they are seeing. But, the process goes farther than simply observation into the areas of math, cosmology, and even metaphysics. Many observations […]
Good enough for government work and science – part 02
Science is actually about approximations. You might ask, “approximations to what?” Science is about approximations to truth. What do I mean approximations to truth? Well, science is the search for explanations which explain what we see, or, at least, that is how it started. How do we explain the motion of the stars? How do […]
Be joyful, the Lord is come
Listen and enjoy. GAUDETE!
Good enough for government work and science – part 01
Have you ever heard the phrase, “good enough for government work?” Generally, it is used to speak in a negative way about a task that has been accomplished. But, really, good enough for government work is the way in which many things actually work in real life. What do I mean? Have you read the […]
The Virgin Mary and the definition of an adult
So, how old was Mary, Our Lady, when she became pregnant with Our Lord Jesus Christ? Well, the answer commonly held by the Early Church Fathers was the same as what the totally apocryphal gospel, the Protoevangelium of James says. What does that apocryphal writing say? And when she was twelve years old there was […]
On differing cultural viewpoints on church unity
The early history of the USA is replete with immigrants from the Radical Reformation who were seeking to escape the Continent and all those decadent churches, whether Catholic or Protestant, in order to finally set up a “church” that was true to what they perceived as being the New Testament model. We do not often […]
