The Almy company (http://www.almy.com/) makes what they call a Panama shirt. I would call it a guayabera (as would a Phillipine). Unless I remember wrongly, the difference between a Panama shirt and a Guayabera is that the Guayabera has two lower pockets while the Panama shirt does not. However, and this is yet another small […]
Fasting for the Dormition
What we call fasting among the Orthodox is called abstinence among Protestants. Abstinence is the abstaining from certain foods, which is what we do during our fasting periods. Fasting, for Protestants, is not only abstaining, but going the next step and diminishing the amount of food that you take in. It is what we would […]
Christian Music to World of Warcraft
So, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdqsnGUtQV8 is a link to a YouTube video. It features the song Rebirthing by a Christian group named Skillet, but the video is done using World of Warcraft characters. Quite a creative way for Christian teens and 20’s to share the faith in a way designed to capture the attention of their age […]
Archbishop Demetrios’ Keynote Address
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios’ Keynote full address to the 39th Biennial Clergy Laity Congress is found at http://www.clergylaity.org/pdf/CLC08-Keynote.pdf. I am quite excited by Archbishop Demetrios’ keynote address, particularly when he says, “The above observations help us understand the importance of the theme of the present Congress: ‘Gather my people to my home’. We are no […]
¡Adios querida comida!
Well, the Dormition Fast is coming up beginning this Friday. Goodbye lechoncito, Cuban sandwich, ropa vieja, flan, etc. I am convinced that Latinos suffer more from our Orthodox fasts because we use so many of the non-fasting ingredients in our food. We can do more with beef, pork, goat, lamb, chicken, cheese, milk, sugar, olives, […]
Another anti-Obama email
I have just received another anti-Obama e-mail. It is purportedly a set of quotes that show him as a hate-filled black radical who is probably Muslim. As with many e-mails of that type, it is either made up or deliberately twisted. In fact, one of the quotes attributed to Mr. Obama was actually made by […]
Did you ever . . . .
I was just thinking this morning of odd events in my life as a pastor, and was wondering if anything similar had happened to you. 1. Did you ever baptize someone under the wrong name? Some years ago, I had to spend several minutes after a baptism with a teary-eyed mother assuring her that she […]
Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre
The “Virgin of Charity of Copper” is the Cuban patroness. She is so beloved by Cubans that I only have vague memories of maybe having heard of the Virgin of Guadalupe before I came to the United States (of America) as a child. Like the Virgin of Guadalupe, she is non-white. She is described as […]
Fixed
Amazing what can happen if one simply goes to the discussion group for Blogger and does some searching. OK, so that got the layout problem solved. For those of you who drooled at arroz con pollo, here is a link to another blog that has a good recipe. http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/004302arroz_con_pollo.php Well, so it is off to […]
And so it begins
“Not with a bang, but with a whimper.” The whimper is my reaction to trying to figure out what I am doing wrong with one of my settings that is causing a problem on this page. I was talking with my mami last night and thinking about arroz con pollo as she spoke of my […]
