A Reasonable Article!!

I finally found a reasonable article about liberalism in the movies!! I was just surfing a bunch of different websites and ran across this:
Reader Question: The Gay, Jewish, Liberal Hollywood Conspiracy
In part, the author says:
What’s infested Hollywood today is an ideology. Liberals run Hollywood (well, 97% of it). That some liberals happen to [...]

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A Pilgrimage at Home?

One of the many endearing stories of St. Seraphim of Sarov was a small act of devotion he engaged in during his years as a hermit. The area around his hermitage was designated by him with Biblical place-names. Thus one place was Jerusalem, another Bethlehem, etc. Thus did the great saint transform the trees and [...]

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The Jitterbug!

Do you have a parent, grandparent, aging aunt or other relative who is having difficulty navigating the “cellphone scene?” Clark Howard recently was talking about this problem, and mentioned a company that decided to address this problem. I couldn’t remember the name of the product and went to his website. Well, I couldn’t find it [...]

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The Atlanta Tornado – March 2008

As an EF-2 tornado swept across downtown Atlanta, one local photographer snapped the shot of a lifetime.
Shane Durrance was on top of his condominium off Howell Mill Road when he saw [...]

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Homily for 3/23/08 – Lent 2 – Metropolitan Laurus, the Good Shepherd

John 10:9-16
It is appropriate today that we should hear the Gospel of the Good Shepherd. It is appropriate, because today we, in the Russian Church outside of Russia, mourn the loss of our own good shepherd and are orphaned until one should be raised up to take his place. But who can take the place [...]

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S I M O N I D A

S I M O N I D A

(A FRESCO IN GRAČANICA)

Your eyes were gouged out, oh beautiful image,
On a pilaster at approach of night,
Knowing that no one would witness the pillage
An Albanian’s knife robbed you of your sight.
But neither your mouth, nor your noble face
To desecrate with his hand did he dare,
Or [...]

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O Christ, the ocean of our forgiveness . . .

O Christ, the ocean of our forgiveness,
allow me to wash off
in Thee
the dirt I am clothed in,
so that I may become resplendent
in the raiment of Thy holy light.
May I be covered with the cloud of Thy hidden glory,
full of secret mysteries.
May the things which divert me
from gazing upon Thy beauty
not be visible to me.
May wonder [...]

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He Taught People’s Souls

In Memoriam Metropolitan Laurus
When he began to appear on television screens four years ago, he seemed a strange man for the Russian public. Bearing the high title of Metropolitan of East America and New York, he was dressed accordingly. He met with President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Alexy II and then signed on [...]

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545 Responsible People – -

HOW TRUE! Finally someone most of us can agree with. I don’t know if this guy is real or what, but it is an interesting idea. A bit simplified, (there are economic cycles and outside influences) …but he still has some good points. And of course, we are responsible for whom we vote for.

Charley [...]

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Memory Eternal! Memory Eternal! Memory Eternal!

Today, 1 / 13 March 2008, our beloved Metropolitan Laurus fell asleep in the Lord. May his Memory Be Eternal!
With the souls of the righteous dead give rest, O Saviour, to the soul of thy servant, preserving it unto the life of blessedness which is with thee, O thou who lovest mankind.
In the place of [...]

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A Serbian Poem – -

A Song of Defiance
by Dobrica Eric
English Translation
I
the servant of God,
the Serb,
announce willingly
through chains and wires
before the witnesses
Power, Agony and Injustice,
that I am guilty and admit my crime!
I am guilty that I am a somebody
and not a nothing and a nobody.
I am guilty that in a time of general
Serb-hating
I go to an Orthodox Christian church
and [...]

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How Many Times Have I Promised – -

“How Many Times Have I Promised,
Yet Every Time I Failed to Keep My Word.
But Disregard This According to Thy Grace.”
Grant forgiveness, O Lord, send also strength. Convert me, that I might live in sanctity, according to Thy holy will. Sanctify my heart that has become a den and dwelling-place of demons.
I am unworthy to ask [...]

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A Couple of Animated Orthodox Emoticons – -

Elizabeth commented on Rumblings of an Ol’d Curmudgeon, that she’d like to have the smilies I had put there under a “Herself sez” comment at the end of Himself’s post about Great Lent. Himself had taken offense at them and asked me to take them down – which I did – before I saw her [...]

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KOSOVO

KOSOVO
To Predrag Obradovic Gagi
and all the others who had to leave
The Kosovar soil’s much darker than else,
its sky is more blue, its grass is more green…
Happiness and sorrows are much more intense,
and forgetting legends is more than a sin.
Through pain, blood and battles, there were boldly set
the roots of our own newer generation,
that brought out [...]

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A Hymn at Night, After Failure to Keep Vow – St. Gregory Nazianzen

A HYMN AT NIGHT, AFTER FAILURE TO KEEP VOW.
eyeusamhn se thn alhqeian, loge,
(Iambic trimeter.)
O Thou, the Word of truth divine!
All light I have not been,
Nor kept the day as wholly Thine;
For Thou dark spots hast seen.
The day is down: night hath prevailed:
My Lord I have belied;
I vowed, and thought to do, but failed;
My steps did [...]

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KOSOVO: A Crying Shame

Kosovo: A Crying Shame
Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 01:05 CST
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
Once again the United States has sold out the good people and rewarded the bad. I am speaking of the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state by our government.
As a bit of background information, the Jewish Defense League was the only [...]

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A Discourse in Iconography – -

This is for Dan who asked for information about Icons. I need to point out that I’m the one who added the Icons to the post – they weren’t part of the original article!

St. Luke Writing the First
Icon of the Theotokos
A Discourse in Iconography
by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Iconography began on the day [...]

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