All right, I know I’m falling into a rut of transcribing snippets from “The Diary of a Russian Priest” just about every day. But I hope that my gentle readers will see why it is that I am so fond of this book. What a great thing it is to be able to share Fr. […]

Another political entry coming up. I’m trying to cut back, but then I happened on this article by Dennis Prager this morning, and it was too good not to pass along:

Of all the myths that surround Left-Right differences, one of the greatest is that the Left values liberty more than the Right. Regarding a small […]

I have a fixed dream of a hearth of my own — even literally, of an open fireplace with its wood fire, of books and a garden of my own. Of course these are vain dreams; our whole life, and the course of history itself, are opposed to this, leading as they do to the […]

Whenever you hear parables, do you think real quick whether you’d be the bad guy or the good guy in the story? I do, but the Publican and the Pharisee — which we all heard today in church — poses a bit of a problem. Because of course everyone would hope they’re more like the […]

This may just be one for the Anglophiles like me, or maybe all of us can identify with the sentiments. In any case, I was following links of links and came across this article entitled “The Reawakening of England” on a Web-site devoted to Orthodoxy in England. I just thought it was wonderfully written. The […]

(I actually had a request to talk about politics on the blog, so I’ll give that some focus. If you don’t like that sort of thing, talk amongst yourselves for a while.)
I think everyone knows what “snafu” stands for, right? The PG-13 version is “Situation Normal: All Fouled Up”. Why couldn’t the president just […]

Why is faith so difficult for man to achieve? Whence these doubts and periods of falling away? Why does faith at times withdraw from us completely, though we would give everything to retain it? First, this is a direct temptation of the devil. It would be extraordinary if we were not so tempted when something […]

We got half a foot of new snow yesterday, and today the sky looked like it was ready to drop more, but it didn’t. It had that metallic off-white color and had no definition, just a smooth sheet laid down from one end to the other. Greg said that he heard that we would get […]

I remember an Saturday Night Live routine from the 80s spoofing the presidential debate between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. Dana Carvey did his usual fuddled and idiotic Bush floundering through two minutes of debate time with nothing at all to say. When he was finished and the moderator asked Dukakis if he […]

My priest sent out an e-mail of the liturgical schedule all the way up to Pascha, thus cementing the feeling that Lent is coming along way too fast this year.
It makes me start thinking about a good book to read through Lent. Last year I read Frederica’s “First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey Through […]