Amen !
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Dilemma That Puzzled The Minds Of Scientists, Philosophers and Theologians For Centuries...
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In a romantic relationship between two women, which one is wearing the pants?
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
How Many Angelic Orders Are There?
Why it's always so much better to just steer clear of sensitive religious topics while on a date...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Gracefully Accepting That Your Former Girlfriend Is Getting Married To Someone Else
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Lack Of Communicating Affection For One Another Can Ruin A Relationship
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
More information on the non-verbal communication of affection mentioned in this video can be found here.
Everything is evolving, everything is falling apart...
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Monday, October 31, 2011
Every Relationship Has Its Ups And Downs...
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
No matter what hurdles a couple may encounter in life, the important thing is to overcome them...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Why Orthodox Christians Should Whole-Heartedly Support Gay Adoption-Rights
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Because NOTHING can ruin a perfectly happy and committed post-modern homosexual relationship better than a cute and constantly-crying little angel, in permanent need of one's unlimited care and attention... :-)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
And God Said: It's Not Good That Man Should Be Alone...
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True Love Comes Softly...
Friday, October 21, 2011
Well... I'm Just Glad To See That At Least Some Homosexuals Don't Try To Deny The Truth Of Their Eternal Damnation...
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I recommend NOT watching this video before viewing the previous one first...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
After All: Homosexuals Deserve What's Coming To Them... Right?
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Last Night Together
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Everything That Has A Beginning Has An End...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Redeeming The Time, Because The Days Are Evil...
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Somehow, I don't really think that that's quite what Saint Paul had in mind...
( More information on how NOT to interpret this particular Pauline passage can be found here ).
Thursday, October 13, 2011
A Word From Our Sponsor...
I see my readers have slowly but surely grown increasingly weary of watching my tediously-tiresome videos, constantly revisiting the same-old, lame-old theme... Maybe they're bored... Maybe they've simply lost interest... Maybe they just don't care anymore...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Spending Quality Time With One's Loved Ones
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I recommend NOT watching this video before viewing the previous one first...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
On Being Gay
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
It's good to see that at least some homosexuals are seriously worried about the severity of the eternal consequences of their spiritual condition...
Saturday, October 8, 2011
It's Not That Homosexuals Fail To Acknowledge Or Understand The Oddity Of Their Condition...
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Friday, October 7, 2011
A Story of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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I recommend NOT watching this video before viewing the previous one first...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Trouble in Paradise...
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
More information on the topic of relationships can be found here.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Fighting Off Temptation
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
The Art of Softly, Gently, Delicately, and Elegantly Declining
the Enticing Offers and Alluring Proposals
of Young, Attractive Women
More information on this topic can be found here.
Friday, September 30, 2011
I Think This Is The End Of A Beautiful Friendship...
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I recommend not watching this video before viewing the previous two first...
Guess not all love stories are meant to be Casablanca...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thinking "Straight"
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Just Two Lost Souls Finally Finding Each Other...
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Key word here being "lost"...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Well, I'm Sure It's All Just A Phase... Right?
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Spending The Night
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
More information on their relationship can be found here.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Resisting Temptation
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
The Art of Softly, Gently, Delicately, and Elegantly Declining
the Enticing Offers and Alluring Proposals
of Young, Attractive Women
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Looks Like I'm Not The Only One Sensing Some Strange Vibes Here After All...
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Hmmm... Wonder what might've gotten into them...
Monday, September 19, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Fighting the System: On the Legacy of Certain Left-Wing South-American Artists of the Previous Century
I recommend NOT watching this video before viewing the previous three first...
John Norman being his old puritanical self again...
Friday, September 16, 2011
John Norman Trying to Reach Out and Engage in Dialogue with Members of the Gay Community
I recommend NOT watching this video before viewing the previous two first...
( More information on the pain and struggle mentioned in this video can be found here ).
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Starting Off the Week on the Wrong Foot...
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Looks Like Things Are Heading Up To A Rough Start...
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Struggling With Same-Sex Attraction
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Quite frankly, I seriously doubt that most people will ever be able to either truly understand or fully appreciate the tremendous, heart-wrenching sacrifices involved in this intense, soul-crushing battle...
On Homosexual Husbands
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
Homophobia and Misogyny all rolled up into one...
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Young Men's Christian Apologetics
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The lead singer is obviously John Norman...
Friday, September 2, 2011
Finally Someone Who Truly Gets My Sense Of Humor!
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
When Orthodoxy Meets "The Matrix"
Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Agent Smith on the Beheading of John the Baptist:
The purpose of life is to end.
The Church Year begins with the Birth of the Mother of God on September 8 and the Conception of Saint John the Baptist on September 23, and ends with the Repose of the Holy Virgin Mary on August 15 and the Beheading of John the Baptist on August 29.
This is inherited from Judaism, where the Ecclesial New Year began on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, the equivalent of September-October, as it does until today in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Know Thyself...
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John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Coming Out
Closeted and In Denial
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Why Women Should NEVER Be Ordained to the Priesthood
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
I Was Too Cool For My Previous Blog Anyway...
Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked: Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes!
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Easter in August
Christ died on Friday, the fourteenth of Nissan.
On the evening of the fourteenth of August, the Requiem of our Lady is sung in the Church, commemorating her earthly departure.
The two Requiems themselves are very close in style, structure, and content to one another, and share the same melodic line.
Three days later, Christ's body wasn't found in the Tomb.
Three days later, Mary's body wasn't found in the Tomb.
After His resurrection, Christ made Himself known to two of His Holy Apostles in the breaking of the bread while they were sitting together at the table having supper, and afterwards appeared in the midst of all Disciples saying to them: Peace be unto you! (Luke 24:30-43)
After her Ascension, Mary appeared in the midst of the Holy Apostles at the breaking of the bread while they were sitting together at the table having supper:
As the Apostles, the God-bearing heralds, after the departure of the Theotokos into the world above were sitting as usual at table to eat, and as they lifted up a piece of bread in the name of the Lord, they suddenly beheld the Theotokos coming from above, surrounded by radiant angels, and heard her imparting to them "Peace" from her Son and God; and so they exclaimed: Alleluia !
The Holy Apostle Thomas was conspicuously absent from both of these miraculous events, and had to be personally convinced by having Christ appear to Him after His resurrection from the dead, asking Him to touch His wounds, and by entering into Mary's Tomb only to discover it empty, as the two other Holy Apostles, Peter and John, did with Christ's Tomb after His glorious resurrection.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
A Friendly Advice To The Orthodox After Two Full Weeks Of Fasting...
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Oh, my!... Just look at that unshaved beard!... Whatever happened to Matthew 6:16-18?...
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
On Christ's Atoning Sacrifice
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The Suffering Messiah
Thursday, August 11, 2011
On Fasting, Abstinence and Self-Discipline
( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).
On the Necessity and Relevance of Ascetic Efforts
in Today's Materialistic and Consumerist Society
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
On Adam & Eve
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Genesis 3:1 ¶Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Stretching Out...
John 21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee: When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Serene Words of Comfort and Encouragement for the Feeble and Faint-Hearted
The High Priest of Atheism
Sunday, July 31, 2011
A Sacramental World-View: On the Sanctity of Marriage
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
On Divine Providence: God's Wonderful Plan For Your Life
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Shakespeare and Picnics: Successfully Planting Orthodox Ideas on American Soil Since the Seventeenth Century AD
The Heavenly Banquet: the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
King: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
Hamlet: At supper.
King: At supper? Where?
Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Protestant Liturgical Piety Circa 1960
( Click on the picture above, to view the video ).
On one hand, the traditional Mass is still in place; on the other hand, we can already witness the phenomenon of empty Churches and -later on in the movie- the infiltration of skepticism and religious indifference into people's hearts.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Lvka-Warm
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Living In Harmony With Nature
We confess that therefore did the heavens close and became like unto brass and copper, for our hearts were closed to the mercy and true love for our neighbor.
Therefore did the earth dry and become unfruitful, for we have not brought to our Lord the first-fruits of good deeds.
Therefore doesn’t He give us rain and dew, for we did not have tears of humility and the life-giving dew of our minds and thoughts towards God.
Therefore did all food sear, and all the grass of the field wither, for all good thoughts in us have dried out.
Therefore did the sky darken, for our mind has been darkened by evil thoughts, and our heart has been stained by unlawful lusts and defiled by wicked desires.
From a Prayer to Saint Elijah
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Orthodox Ecumenism 101
1 Kings 18:40 And Elijah said unto them: Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The Pilgrim's Progress
The sad reality of our spiritual 'life'...
Luke 12:49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
A Second Attempt By Calvinists Elders To Convert Matt Damon And Draw Him Over To Their Side
Calvinism 101.
Our free-will has destroyed us.
Tatian the Assyrian, Address to the Greeks, Chapter XI.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Satan's Puppets
...controlled by the Master Puppeteer through the invisible strings of passions,
with which he binds us and holds us captive.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Orthodox Worship 101
Most of the females in our parish were breasty and liked to flaunt it. [...] It was always an odd phenomenon: the Pantocrator staring at me from the ceiling as I was staring at the young Greek women. Not only were there no head-coverings, but...
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Eastern Orthodoxy: THE Family-Friendly Faith !
Eastern Orthodoxy: reuniting all your little ones with the Lord since 170 BC
In a time and age when so many religious faiths exclude women and children from martyrdom, we here, in the Orthodox Church, are proud to announce you that we make no such sexist and ageist discriminations ! Quite to the contrary, the motto by which we gladly stand is: Women and children first !
2 Maccabees 7:20 But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord. 21 Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them: 29 Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren. 41 Last of all after the sons the mother died.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
On Human Weakness & Demonic Temptation
Oh, well... the devil makes us sin...
But we like it when we're spinnin' in his grip...
Monday, July 4, 2011
On Paradise, the Afterlife, and the Kingdom of Heaven
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Luke 20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
For instance, take this sample: he [mortal man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse!
It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!
His [man's] heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists -- utterly and entirely -- of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn't it curious? Isn't it interesting? You must not think I am exaggerating, for it is not so. I will give you details.
You know what the human race enjoys and what it doesn't enjoy.
1. First of all, I recall to your attention the extraordinary fact with which I began. To wit, that the human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys -- yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will risk life, reputation, everything -- even his queer heaven itself -- to make good that opportunity and ride it to the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combined, yet it is actually as I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes its place.
That rich gift [intercourse] which, possessed as we possess it, makes all other possessions trivial and not worth the trouble of invoicing.
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, pp. 8-11
Is it any wonder then that Muslims believe that everybody's born a Muslim, that Islam is man's original religion, and every conversion to Islam is actually a "reversion", even if that person has never been a Muslim before?... They even go so far as to fancy themselves to be monotheists, when -in fact- the only God they truly serve is their flesh, their bellies, and their loins. -- But at least they have a very good excuse, come Judgment Day: they lacked God's revelation... which is something that many Christians such as myself cannot -sadly- use in their defense...
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Why Roman Catholics Should Follow Me Instead of the Pope
Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Two Ways That Are Acceptable To God
Peter was married, and Paul was celibate. Mary was both a Virgin and a Mother.
Christ was at once unmarried, and the mystical Bridegroom of the Church.
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