Recent content by Andrew21091

He was a wonderful man. May his memory be eternal.

Mainly the use of the phelonion. The furry mitre is hit or miss.

I wish that hierarchs would re-adopt the older style vestments.

I misread the date of when the bones were actually assembled, hence my cleared post. It seems František Rint was simply trying to mimic the Capuchin crypts in Italy.

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I have visited the monastery three times (each time staying for a week or more). I love it there. It is a very holy place. The community there is wonderful. To visit them, just get in contact with the guest-master. They have a very nice guesthouse you will stay in and they typically allow for...

"Armenia and Georgia were the first to adopt Christianity as their state religion; now, American evangelical sects beckon July 5, 2014 5:00AM ET by Tara Isabella Burton In the Armenian town of Artashat, a grid of Soviet concrete and corrugated tin roofs an hour from the capital city of...

The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day

All joking aside. I am nobody really. I'm only a lay person (a janitor at that!) and have no place to tell bishops what to do. I also don't have a place to compare myself to any Saint.

But who condemned him? I suppose my whole point is that we need to be careful to judge bishops. Obviously, we can criticize their actions, but assuming that we know better is a delusion from the evil one. You can say bishops are light posts to hell all you want, but following our own wills is...

Didn't know you were that old.

St. Mark was a bishop. Who are you?

I often wonder why we even have bishops at all. We all know more about the Faith than they do. All this paranoia about bishops. No faith in Christ or the Church at all.

Living Prayer by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi by Haim Shaked