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Let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us – Psalm 89:17.This is the cry of the Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses (who wrote this Psalm some 500 years before King David), born of his experience at the burning bush and in communion with God on the top of Mt. Sinai- during which the brightness of the Lord shown upon him and caused his face to glow with the uncreated light. It is a cry fulfilled in the... Read more

Where’s Flip Wilson when we need him? “Talk of the Devil has been brushed under the carpet in our churches in recent times. Once an essential feature of any decent sermon, Satan is now seen as an embarrassing reminder of the Church’s superstitious past …” MORE. HT NewsForum A rrrgh! (Sorry ’bout that. I have no idea how that got on here!) Mr Crouch sure makes a lot of sense … would that the Devil (MTV and others — like,... Read more

We first met in Franklin, Tennessee in 1993. Mary and her husband, Conrad, were fellow Converts to Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church. We once had lunch at an Italian restaurant and Conrad told us that he knew of two St Conrads. His favorite St Conrad story involved a spider. It seems that a spider was observed slinking down a thread from the ceiling and went into this Conrad’s drink. Conrad drank it — and lived! Everyone back then knew that... Read more

At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy on the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord on Mount Tabor, the priest blesses grapes … Why?Here follows some answers … The blessing of grapes, as well as other fruits and vegetables on this day is the most beautiful and adequate sign of the final transfiguration of all things in Christ. It signifies the ultimate flowering and fruitfulness of all creation in the paradise of God’s unending Kingdom of Life where... Read more

Remember when sane people used to say things like this …“This is not the first year that this lady has been mixing singing about human passions with Christian symbols – crosses, statues of the Virgin, beads, and now it’s self-crucifixion. This means the singer needs spiritual assistance,” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy head of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, told Interfax. “It appears that, by this interest in Christian symbolism, an interest more than strange, the singer... Read more

The following piece was posted last year on August 4, 2005, the day my Dad died. May God rest his soul. My Dad had a sense of humour. When “on” he could be one of the funniest people you’d ever meet. His sense of humour was often biting, at someone else’s expense and, therefore, could be offensive. Good humour, this side of Paradise, usually is. There’s the rub: This side of Paradise. My Dad, every time we passed a cemetery,... Read more

It was the first time Israel struck a major Christian population center to the north of the Lebanese capital. Story – 1. Story – 2. Story – 3. WASHINGTON (Aug. 4) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as the first phase in ending the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. It was the most concrete signal yet that the U.S. may be willing to compromise on the stalemate over how to end... Read more

Buenos Aires, Aug. 03, 2006 (CNA) – The unborn child of handicapped woman who conceived through rape has been spared because he is too far developed for the abortion to be performed. The doctors who would have been tasked with administering the abortion refused to do so because technically it would have required “induced delivery.” Story. HT: NewsForum A Virus in the C of E? The Church of England’s publishing arm has advised clergy to ignore Symantec threat warnings, after... Read more

My radio interview with Come Receive the Light on One Flew Over the Onion Dome has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 12th. From Evangelical Outpost, here’s a couple additions to Sunday’s Comments post:Red Herring — The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. Thus, a “red herring” argument is one... Read more