My geeky juices are flowing at watching this video. And, what do you know? The astronaut even has a good singing voice. So, this is a good time to remind you that Doxacon, (where Faith and Truth meet Science Fiction and Fantasy) the Orthodox “geek” convention sponsored by an Orthodox parish, will be coming in […]
Archives for May 2013
The IRS wants you — to behave
I have no long comment to make about the IRS. The comments are certainly being made by every news organization. What I find interesting are the groups from the other side that are now coming out and saying that they, too, believe that they have been audited for political purposes in the recent past. The […]
Stick & Stones … Words will never hurt me.
As a priest, I hear confessions. In fact, I hear confessions all the time, not simply when I am officiating the formal Sacrament. But, many times when people think that they are confessing to God, they are really telling me of an event in their lives that continues to cause them pain. That is, they […]
Jodi Arias and forgiveness
As many of you know, Jodi Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder today in Arizona. No, I do not want to write about the crime or about the trial or about the verdict. I want to write about the aftermath. I came home from work and turned on the TV. I missed the beginning […]
Holy bread and not so holy blood
Well, Father Orthoduck must admit that, uhm, he embarrassed himself again. Sunday, in preparation for Pascha, Father Orthoduck was helping out the parish priest by preparing the Proskomedia. If you want to know how that is prepared, you can go here. For those of you not that interested, it is when the priest prepares the […]
You mean some know we exist in the USA?