Saint John Chrysostom has several things to say about wealth and poverty. His sayings have been collected into a booklet titled “On Wealth and Poverty” which you can get at Amazon. Most everyone who is into the whole subject of wealth and poverty sadly only quotes one paragraph of multiple things that he said on […]
Archives for September 2016
Inconsistency of King James English only Orthodox believers
I published a post yesterday on a subject that included, in passing, a comment on the insistence on the use of King James English only in Orthodox services. There are only some that insist on that, but they are a strong enough force to prevent the updating of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy into modern English […]
On tradition and old habits
As Orthodox, we pride ourselves in conserving the Holy Tradition that we have received from the Fathers. We pride ourselves on the surprise people get when they read some of the Early Church fathers and find that it sounds like some of what the priest said this immediate past Sunday. We like seeing a photograph […]
Mawage — Princess Bride
The Princess Bride is the ultimate “chick flick” as far as I am concerned. But, as a priest, one of the funniest scenes is the marriage scene with the eccentric bishop. He says: “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, tru wuv, will […]
God is not a helicopter parent?
Again, a tremendously enjoyable article in Internetmonk. It is actually a reprint from another blog (with permission) about God and how he works with us as a parent. It uses the popular phrase about parents today being “helicopter parents” and compares that to how God works with us in Scripture. Go here to read the […]
