{"id":54,"date":"2012-10-06T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/10\/a-personal-note-your-prayers.html"},"modified":"2012-10-06T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T12:29:00","slug":"a-personal-note-your-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/10\/a-personal-note-your-prayers.html","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Note (your prayers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 1em;text-align: left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-0fEF3GdMjgE\/UHBlwoWGCJI\/AAAAAAAAG-A\/jEiiB7R2qow\/s1600\/Fr._J_in_Dunking_booth.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-0fEF3GdMjgE\/UHBlwoWGCJI\/AAAAAAAAG-A\/jEiiB7R2qow\/s320\/Fr._J_in_Dunking_booth.jpg\" width=\"179\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">High &amp; Dry\/St George dunking booth<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: red\"><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">T<\/span><\/b><\/span>his past year has been a doozy.\u00a0 I took a hiatus from regular <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/orthodixie\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">podcasting<\/a> to dedicate Fridays to actually being a \u201cday off\u201d.\u00a0 I spoke at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/01\/on-missions-and-evangelism.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Missions and Evangelism Conference<\/a> with Fr Peter Gillquist (his last; memory eternal).\u00a0 My first born was graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/06\/pomp-circumstance-cowboys-cassocks.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">High School for the Performing and Visual Arts<\/a>.\u00a0 Our parish hosted our diocesan <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/SaintJosephOrthodox\/2012PLC\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Parish Life Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/07\/camp-st-raphael-one-2012-final.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Camp<\/a> and the Clergy Symposium; I was also blessed to speak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/03\/st-paul-space-aliens-spedden.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Edmonton<\/a>, Oklahoma City, and Fort Worth.\u00a0 Daughter entered college; son began high school; baby girl in last year of elementary school; and the wife and I, thanks God, got a little older with each given day.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the whirlwind of events regarding my teacher, mentor, and friend:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/09\/father-charles-dionysius-caldwell.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Charles Caldwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 1em;text-align: right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-mWS_kIRN1bQ\/UHBlicJq7OI\/AAAAAAAAG94\/5U06nKUP464\/s1600\/frJ_going_in.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-mWS_kIRN1bQ\/UHBlicJq7OI\/AAAAAAAAG94\/5U06nKUP464\/s320\/frJ_going_in.jpg\" width=\"179\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Second pitch was a doozy!<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All this, coupled with the normal activities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintjosephorthodox.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">parish life<\/a>, is to say:\u00a0 <i>whew<\/i> (thanks God).<\/p>\n<p>For those who still frequent this near-dormant blog:<\/p>\n<p>The Misses and I will be away for a couple weeks in celebration of a quarter century of bliss.\u00a0 Upon our return, it is my hope to begin blogging and podcasting again.\u00a0 Oh, and there\u2019s that book I\u2019m <strike>supposed to be<\/strike> writing.<\/p>\n<p>(Did I mention His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch, and His Grace Basil, Bishop of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America will both be visiting Houston within the coming month?) <\/p>\n<p><b>I covet your prayers.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High &amp; Dry\/St George dunking booth This past year has been a doozy.\u00a0 I took a hiatus from regular podcasting to dedicate Fridays to actually being a \u201cday off\u201d.\u00a0 I spoke at the annual Missions and Evangelism Conference with Fr Peter Gillquist (his last; memory eternal).\u00a0 My first born was graduated from the High School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Personal Note (your prayers)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"High &amp; Dry\/St George dunking boothThis past year has been a doozy.&nbsp; I took a hiatus from regular podcasting to dedicate Fridays to actually being\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2012\/10\/a-personal-note-your-prayers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Personal Note (your prayers)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"High &amp; 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