Religion
Christmas 2011
It’s been a tradition of mine to give my friends a Christmas blessing on the blog, or via e-mail, and this year will be no exception. The benediction will be short, however, as I have to be honest and say that my heart isn’t fully in the Christmas spirit this year. The year was a [...]
Mother Teresa’s order prays for old foe Hitchens
This is Christianity done right. These prayers offered to a man who had a massive difference with Blessed Mother Teresa are a testimony to love of everyone, not just those who agree with you. It is the core of the Christian faith, whether one be Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant, that should be kept in our [...]
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
It is with sadness, though not an unexpected one, to report that one of the greatest polemicists of our day, the ever controversial, every-annoying, utterly brilliant Christopher Hitchens has died. I came into contact with Hitchens’ writing about ten years ago, a bit after 9/11. Before then, I had dismissed him offhand as just another [...]
Psalm 100 / Happy Thanksgiving!
To my family, friends and readers, I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. It is my hope to celebrate with everyone, at least in spirit. As we spend this day giving thanks for the blessings we all have had this past year, spend a bit of time contemplating Psalm 100 today: 1 [...]
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Odilon Redon オディロン･ルドン : The eye, like a strange balloon （To Edgar Poe） (via 無為庵の書窓)
Frigga asking a Tree
Ogaden (Silent Cry Full-Documentary)
The film Silent Cry is a documentary made by young British Somali students to raise awareness about the hidden genocide taking place in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, the film documents and interviews some of the many hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the hidden genocide being committed by the Ethiopian government in the Ogaden region. The Ogaden region, the heart of the Horn of Africa, has witnessed one of the worst crimes against humanity. The Ethiopian government has done everything in its power to conceal the suffering and the human rights abuses taking place in the region. The hidden genocide in the Ogaden has gone unnoticed by the international community because the meles zanawi regime has expelled all humanitarian, human rights, and media organizations from the region and has placed an economic and humanitarian blockade on the Ogaden, many people are dieing due to the man-made famine created by the Ethiopian government. This is a call to action for all of humanity to end the genocide in the Ogaden.
Even if the whole world enter into Communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople, I will not.”
Priestmonk Elia
St. Maximos the Confessor (+662)
At that time the Patriarchs wished to (and did) give Communion to non-Orthodox, who did not accept the IVthe Oecumenical Council of Chalcedon. Are we to say now that the One True Church be Body of Christ, in which Alone the Holy Spirit dwells annd works the Mysteries, has been wrong about the Nature of Christ for 15 centuries? St. Maximos, famous for his “Four Centuries on Love” was tortured, had his hand and tongue cut off and exiled.
Would that all named Maximos today would speak out against the betrayal of the Faith by the Patriarchs, who now even publicly Commune not only Miaphysites, but even Papists!
God is not mocked. These who betray the True Faith and their Office, will not escape the Judgement of God in the Next Life.
Burning Bush MonasteryEven if the whole world enter into Communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople, I will not.
St. Maximos the Confessor (+662)
