…Forgive me brethren. The Lord forgives and I forgive. Let us double up on our prayer life and pray for our bishops, for their judgment is greater than ours.
As we begin the Great Fast…
March 7, 2011
One who fights alone
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- Stinkbomb II (102)
- geo michalopulos OK, now we got something (finally!): “He created issues and problems from the beginning of his...
- nit picker colette- You tease!! What are you referring to?
- nit picker Dr. Stankovich - You write: I did not know of this situation until very recently, and those who informed...
- George Michalopulos Stan, you keep evading the question and making assertions. OK, I’ll play it your way: I...
- M. Stankovich Alright, then. The circling of the wagons would suggest that the question will not be answered. I did...
- M. Stankovich Pravoslavnie, It was not my intention to disparage the March for Life or “indict” those who...
- FYI Please, PLEASE, stop feeding this man’s ego. You do not assist him.
- FYI Kraeff – you are NO gentleman. Sit down, shut up, and stop sinning…as Metropolitan Jonah said.
- James Looks like we just skipped over that little detail. I wonder if the OCA was under Moscow if said bishop would...
- James Interesting how the only “local” Church here in the USA is the one in the most trouble. Just sayn!
- colette emmmmmmmm, something was being passed around at church- I never saw it and don’t know if it was...
- colette Ohh-you are schismatic according to Carl . . . .
- colette Met. Jonah is a humble and saintly man. You said it Herac. I don’t know why the religious people always...
- colette What a relief! Oh this is in response to Stankovich praying for Christina . . . Now she will understand your...
- colette “colette said the woman who owns the apartment draws a comparison between Vladyka Basil & the...
- M. Stankovich Is this your card, Mr. Michaopulos? Yes! The Jack of Spades! And that is your signature? Yes! And what...
- Michael Bauman As it stands now, “foreign” hierarchs give us roots in the Apostolic faith that we...
- CQ As you’re defending the basis for this entire posting I thought I’d point out this: “It seems...
- Sub-Deacon Gregory Varney George you and I both know the hell that most priests have to go through. They go to...
- Disgusted With It Were you also “shocked & scandalized” when an alcoholic archimandrite was elected...
- M. Stankovich ChristineFevronia, Months ago I told you that you are in my prayers – that God would grant you...
- Stan Poulos “Things might have been different had the OCA proved itself to be a mature body but that’s all been...
- George Michalopulos Stan, this is a sideshow. You and I both known celibate parish clergy who are more than capable...
- George Michalopulos Brilliant analysis. I’ve been thinking of the Iconoclast controversy lately. What was...
- George Michalopulos I would go further Helga and state that Fr Victor is worthy of the actual episcopal distinction....
- It’s Called “Voting with Your Feet” (59)
- George Michalopulos The “challenge” is mine alone. I know what my gut tells me, but I want to quantify it...
- CQ I issued no “challenge” George. I reported the facts. North Dakota adds 2,281 here, 1,624 there, 862...
- George Michalopulos CQ, your challenge fascinates me. I will devote (soon I hope) some time to developing an essay...
- geo michalopulos A man after my own heart.
- Seraphim98 Color me unreconstructed. Though I served honorably in the US military, the sweet strains of Dixie will...
- CQ Is it really necessary to be snarky because your facts are proven incorrect? Perhaps a typo of mine confused you....
- George Michalopulos Wow, 0.08% growth. That’s something to write home to Mother about. If it wasn’t for...
- CQ California’s population grew last year by 278,000. That’s less than 1% (.08, actually) growth, but...
- George Michalopulos CQ, I guess time will tell. Right now with a net population decrease, I’d say things look...
- CQ George, Since I was a child I’ve heard people who are not now and have never been Californians say things...
- George Osborne Hold on there, cowboy. Tennessee does not fly a Comfederate flag on any official basis whatsoever. We...
- George Michalopulos Well, I’m sure California would love to have Tennessee’s problems. It’s the...
- Pere LaChaise Exactly. Also, for TN’s population to rise by a measly 4%, it takes only a small number by CA to...
- George Michalopulos Mr Trost, I’m afraid I must agree with you in this regard, viz the “substantial...
- Michael Kinsey A solar flare is an act of God and is described extensively in Revelation. Ask God why He sends bowls...
- Nate Trost Pretending that the Republican or Democratic parties haven’t gone through substantial evolution...
- George Michalopulos Thank you for proving my point, Stan. 64% of all Dems voted for the Civil Rights Act while 80% of...
- Stan Poulos Here is how the “Southern” vote went for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn’t the...
- Michael Bauman No matter how often we stumble through Great Lent confessing as little as possible; no matter how...
- George Michalopulos If it wasn’t for the GOP, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would have never passed. Sixty...
- George Michalopulos Stan, the Crony Capitalists give more to the Dems than they do the GOP. That’s a fact. For...
- Archpreist John Morris I also grew up in Oklahoma. I left because when I graduated from Oklahoma State University, I...
- CQ The study does not control for total population or population density. Seems a problem if you’re going to...
- Linda Albert You’re right. Miles City is still the Montana in which I grew up. They still have the old cowboy...
- Peter A. Papoutsis Truly He is Risen! I would love to help you with the “Patrologia Graeca.” I have...
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- geo michalopulos Nate, you have no idea. The Conservatives have been hated vituperatively since Goldwater 64. I know,...
- Michael Bauman The fact is that as vulgar as modern politics is, it is more civilized than at many times in the past....
- Gregg Gerasimon Thank you for posting this. The more I watch these Metropolitan Jonah talks, the more I believe that...
- Nate Trost You presented a proposition that 98% of vulgar hateful political speech comes from “the Left”,...
- Guy Westover WONDERFUL! What else can one say? Oh, yeah. Pray for them and offer them some financial support....
- George Michalopulos OK, lemme get this straight, even with Google alone Palin-hatred eclipses Hillary-hatred by 2:1....
- Fr. Hans Jacobse It’s always nice to read comments from someone who realizes that history did not begin on the...
- Nate Trost You sound amusingly like a self-righteously offended character from the New Testament at the moment....
- Nate Trost Google search: “Hilary Clinton (extremely vulgar obscenity)”: About 319,000 results Google...
- L http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pre sident-obama%E2%80%99s-use-of- teabagger-term-provokes-media- debate/
- George Michalopulos Thank you for pointing that out Ivan. I never knew what a “Tea Bagger” was until last...
- George Michalopulos Good point. When all is said and done however the Left uses more vulgarity and hatred than the...
- CQ Tornados struck hard in Oklahoma. People died, homes and entire communities destroyed. Lord have mercy!
- wow! suggests http://zoeforlifeonline.org/
- Lola J. Lee Beno Just out of curiosity, how would you label women who are not in monogamously-committed...
- Tim R. Mortiss A worthy point to be made now and then, though it is no longer much understood, alas. There’s...
- Archpriest John W. Morris Actually, the constitution does exempt religious institutions from taxation. In the case of...
- Michael Kinsey Only sodomites, and gommorhites demand submissiveness from others.
- Michael Kinsey All well, arguements over whose better, tweedledumb or tweedledumber. I will mention a wieghter matter...
- one Leftists are extremely vulgar and not to be confused with liberals—let’s identify them correctly. A...
- Nate Trost Considering you personally used the term “the slut vote” in an essay, and on another occasion...
- George Michalopulos Thank you for pointing that out Ivan. One of the reasons I migrated over to the Right years ago...
- Ivan Vasiliev For those of you who insist on using the term “tea-baggers” for members of the Tea Party...
- Tim R. Mortiss Churches are non-profit organizations, like many non-church bodies. They don’t have profits. You...
- George Michalopulos Let me expand upon your thesis. Yes, you are correct that the Founding Fathers believed that...
- May 20, 2013 – Tornadoes in Oklahoma (3)
- Gail Sheppard Praying. . .
- Michael Kinsey May the Christ grant you the grace required to please HIm in crisis. There was another empty big ill...
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- Serpahim98 It puzzles me why people think the OCA surrendering it’s tomos voluntarily as part of an effort to...
- nit picker M. Stankovich, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I looked again at the original...
- Paul Ford There never was a rapist priest, as far as I know from witnesses. That is also the account that I received...
- M. Stankovich nit picker, I apparently missed your response here and, dude, you have seriously mischaracterized my...
- canihaveawitness? Nothing says “”Christ is Risen!” like an exchange of gratuitous insults by...
- M. Stankovich Seraphim, And let me make this simple enough that even you can grasp it: never, ever, not once –...
- sue Carl, Do you personally know Fr. Fester? Have you worked with him in some capacity? If so, where and when? I...
- Michael Bauman Amen.
- Seraphim98 Mr. Stankovich, Let me make this simple enough so that even a highly educated person can understand it....
- M. Stankovich Seraphim, Your essential point will “stand” when you demonstrate is it is accurate. And you...
- Michael Bauman Carl, none of this makes any sense at all. Even considered in the best light I can imagine, the OCA...
- nit picker To go you an analogy with which I am somewhat familiar; many people drink alcohol, some abuse and yet...
- nit picker Mr. Kraeff You are the one saying that one Metropolitan has a Narcissistic personality disorder,...
- George Michalopulos I think you hit the nail on the head: kicking a man when he’s down and continuing to do so....
- George Michalopulos Carl, your dancing skills amaze me. When you are caught in yet another misguided obeisance to one...
- George Michalopulos And I thought we Greeks had the monopoly on this type of behavior! Anyway, is it any wonder that...
- nit picker Mr. Kraeff, I have read, and re-read that lovely pastoral letter from Met. Hilarion to Abbess Aemiliane...
- Serpahim98 “And the last thing on their mind is this clinician’s “opinions” of 2000 years of Christian...
- M. Stankovich Fr. Andrei, I don’t know if you are interested, but I just finished the second of two recent and...
- Basil ““if Moscow rescinds the Tomos.” In such a case, Moscow would have lost all credibility. ” Carl,...
- colette Well that’s not what I learned at Seminary. This is your own understanding Carl.
- colette I can’t stop laughing . . . +Jonah a schemer? Oh my Gooooooooshhhhhhhh. Carl you don’t know what...
- M. Stankovich Seraphim98, What don’t you get about this being a contrived & fabricated issue? What evidence...
- Archpriest Andrei Alexiev Yes,Seraphim,if we want to hold Metropolitan Jonah to his word about everything,we have to...
- Albert Carl – it is obvious that you have never met nor worked with Fr. Fester. If you would have you would...
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- Lola J. Lee Beno Well, now I can say that I now personally know someone who won a Typeface Design award! I’m...
- Seraphim98 Christ is Risen! Kalo Pascha to all For those of you who have not seen this before, enjoy, for those who...
- To Monk James Dear Monk James, Thank you for reminding us about the real iconography. Here is a short article:...
- George Michalopulos Thank you Gail, thank you Fr Pat.
- George Michalopulos 8th Day is a spiritual oasis indeed. I wish I visited Wichita and the Cathedral more often.
- Gail Sheppard RE: “I hope this is the worst “scandal” you ever cause, George.” I doubt it is...
- Michael Bauman 8th Day Books
- colette Amazon . . .
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- Michael Bauman Michael I called egalitarianism heretical in nature and it is because all good gifts come down from...
- M. Stankovich Prof. Siewers, So when when Met. Anthony (Bloom) quotes St. Methodius of Olympus when man and woman...
- Michael Bauman not picker, we will be glad to pick some nits with you any time, but most of fun comes from my wife.
- M. Stankovich Albert, You seem to have missed me saying “I do believe your original question is...
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Well, having come back from a trip to a conference with plenty...
- Carl Kraeff It is far from a “glowing” endorsement. Why don’t you read one more time?
- Saunca Me and all my gay friends??? You must know something about my life that I don’t!
- nit picker Since my wife ….knows that the way to a man’s heart is between the 2nd & 3rd rib, up and to the...
- M. Stankovich I suggest before you mock the Holy Tradition and the Patristic way you humble yourself and read the...
- Carl Kraeff Dear Albert–I was initially going to agree with you that I have been inconsistent. OTOH, one...
- Michael Bauman Nit-picker Since my wife is a former state champion black powder rifle champion, has self defense...
- M. Stankovich This, Mr. Bauman, is exactly why nine judges are deciding the “morality” of same-sex...
- colette The man is in the public arena and if he is living a certain lifestyle openly, then this is public knowledge...
- Michael Bauman Are you saying that unless one can line up a series of quotes from the Fathers to defend a statement,...
- Albert Carl, Thank you for your reply, however I find it curious that you expounded at length about Met. Jonah,...
- nit picker I asked my wife what the term “sexual minorities” connotated to her. She immediately responded with her...
- Albert Michael, It was wrong for this man to hold the Gospel. It was not thought out, it was just done as a...
- Michael Bauman I asked my wife what the term “sexual minorities” connotated to her. She immediately...
- M. Stankovich Orthodox Dogmatic Theology Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky Errors take root and become obstinate most...
- nit picking M.Stankovich- Christ is Risen! The “Three Hermits”. I haven’t read that one in ages....
- colette Clarity-boy do we need clarity . . . Anyway–that’s because those sins were/are public and the...
- Tell It to the Church “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of...
- Michael Bauman lex, you are always welcome. If you come to St. George some Sunday for worship, my wife and I will be...
- Michael Bauman Michael S. You may not have noticed the change but I no longer believe or say that same sex attraction...
- M. Stankovich colette, No, I do not “need” to do anything of the sort. As I was the only person to design...
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- George Michalopulos You’re right. The “guns and butter” policies of LBJ paved the road for the...
- Michael Bauman The problem with the economy rests in the unrestrained industrialization and post-industrialization...
- Archpreist John Morris I believe that the economic problems during the Nixon, Ford and Carter years were caused by...
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- Basil And the US under the inept Carter and George’s beloved Ronald Reagan supported the most militantly...
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