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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, … [Continue reading]
https://ottawaphotographer.com/klsgnzqiio 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 … [Continue reading]
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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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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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 … [Continue reading]
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Buying Ambien Cr Online Father Orthoduck is an Antiochian priest. That means that he has many friends who are either Arab immigrant or descended from Arabs. This is part of the reason why he questions strongly some of the all-too-common American attitudes towards "Arabs." … [Continue reading]
Yesterday Father Orthoduck pointed out that both Matthew 5 and Leviticus 19 are holiness codes. Father Orthoduck should have said that the Matthew 5 passage continues over into Matthew 6. Remember that the chapter divisions are not found in the … [Continue reading]
Father Orthoduck was sent the following e-mail four days ago, and finally has time to begin a reply: I wanted to get your take on possible applications of Lev 19:9-10 to state welfare systems today. A friend and I have a friendly disagreement over … [Continue reading]
Father Ernesto had meant to do a different post than this one, but he has been very busy the last 48 hours, and so he asked Father Orthoduck to do an emergency fill-in. As you may remember, on Monday, Father Orthoduck posted on a small liturgical … [Continue reading]
Father Orthoduck has previously chronicled his various, uhm, missteps. Well, Father Orthoduck did it again. You see, every parish to which Father Orthoduck has been assigned has its own way of dealing with the directions that come from a higher … [Continue reading]
