Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got a special edition of the Orthodixie Podcast: Fr Danislav Gregorio, sometime author, sometime liturgist, (and fulltime nut job) will be joining us to speak of his new project. Oh, here comes now … Hello, Fr Danislav!   “Quiet, Father Joseph, please!  I’m composing.” My, this is exciting!  Fr Danislav composing a new song here – LIVE – on Ancient Faith Radio.    Let’s listen in … The Orthodixie Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.  OOPS!  I... Read more

Today is the ninety-eighth anniversary of the repose of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn.  To My Beloved Clergy and Laity of the Syrian Greek-Orthodox Catholic Church in North America: Greetings in Christ Jesus, Our Incarnate Lord and God. My Beloved Brethren: Two years ago, while I was a Vice-President and member of the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union, being moved with compassion for my children in the Holy Orthodox faith “once and for all delivered to the Saints” (St Jude... Read more

Last October, the wife and I went to the United Kingdom in celebration of 25 years of marriage; that’s where the “gay” part came up.    No, I didn’t make some startling revelation … It was on a bus, a very public display.  I was glad we didn’t have young kids with us.  Then again, I’ve been bullied on a bus before. Growing up in rural North Carolina, from first grade till driver’s license, I rode the bus to school. ... Read more

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Having taken most of the year off from blogging and podcasting, I now come to the end of my hiatus. At least, that’s the plan; resolutions can be slippery!  In previous years I’ve done a year-in-review audio snapshot of the Orthodixie Podcast; ain’t much there this year. However, here’s a look back at 2010 and 2011 in hopes that you will support the ministry of Ancient Faith Radio during their crucial year-end campaign.   Until next year, many years to... Read more

On this day in 1968, the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft returned to a course for Earth after orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours. They were the first humans to ever leave our planet’s orbit, and the first to ever see the Earth as an entire planet. On Christmas Eve, the crew had taken the iconic “Earth rise” picture and read the first 10 verses from the book of Genesis over a live television broadcast. When Commander... Read more

Taken from today’s edition of The Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1818 that the carol “Silent Night” (Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!) was first performed at the Church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, Bavaria. Father Joseph Mohr was working there as a young priest, and had written the poem two years earlier. Legend has it that as Christmas approached, the church pipe organ was broken, threatening a Midnight Mass without music. Father Mohr paid a quick visit to... Read more

by Anthony Esolen The student congress at Harvard, America’s most prestigious “institution of higher learning,” as the euphemism goes, has voted to provide funds to a campus group promoting sadomasochistic sex. Members of the Love and Fidelity Network, a group promoting chastity before marriage and faithfulness within, voice their opposition, and are widely denounced and ridiculed. A female professor of philosophy at Queen’s University in Ontario writes a book whose title asks us to consider why we should have any... Read more

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