The light on the horizon is starting to get orange. Saturday’s almost over and Forgiveness Sunday is coming. After the service tomorrow, we have our last meal together before the Lenten fast kicks in. And then, we celebrate Forgiveness Vespers, at the end of which we all ask forgiveness, each one to each one, asking […]

Now here’s a headline you don’t see often: Race for God particle heats up.

Scientists in Switzerland and the U.S. are in a mad rush to see which will be first to discover a Higgs boson, or “God particle.” If I recall what I learned in “The Elegant Universe ** ” correctly (and I probably don’t), […]

While working on a special section for parents for a client newspaper, I was plowing through the boatload of press releases aimed at that desirable market when I came across this one(*):
Mutual of Omaha Foundation Announces Partnership with Non-Profit KaBOOM! to Build Playgrounds in Six Cities in 2009
(CSRwire) WASHINGTON D.C. - January 29, 2009 - […]

Winter is beginning to wear out, which should be good news. But I’ve noticed that in this area, the late-winter/early-spring phase has a wide range of temps and conditions. The lower end of them — as we had last week — are just ugly. Cold and biting, gray and stone-white, and as likely as not […]

There’s an essay called “Born to Suffer” in monastic newsletter I get called ‘The Veil,’ (monastery listing HERE) and in it I read:
Our sufferings come in many forms, both collectively as a people or a nation, and also as individuals. As a nation/people, we do not have to look far into the past to see […]

Walk before God in simplicity, and not in subtleties of the mind. Simplicity brings faith, and intricate speculations bring conceit.
– St. Isaac the Syrian

God’s love is the only love in the universe worthy of the name.
– Frederica Mathewes-Green

Praying is — spiritual breathing; when we pray, we breathe in the Holy Spirit.
– St. John of Kronstadt

Walking the hound, my ear caught that sound that has become so familiar these months. At first, it sounds like a faraway chihuahua barking, then another, then a whole bunch of chihuahuas. And then you realize the sound is all coming from above you.

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There were thousands of flying chihuahuas this afternoon, line upon […]

Fr. Luke Hartung was nice enough to send along a link to a video presentation of ‘The Beatitudes’. It’s incredible, and I have to share.