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Just a word on the blog – a reminder. Long-time readers will recall that this blog (and previous incarnations of it) used to be a ten-post a day type of blog in which I linked to everything, commented on lots of it, and hosted intense comment-box conversations on the issues – religious and otherwise –…

I’m going to do that thing again – that thing of encouraging you Latin-Rite Catholics out there to dip your toe into the Eastern Catholic waters. Not as a tourist, not as an observer at a zoo, but as a Catholic with other Catholics, worshipping God in ancient rites. Yes, it is confusing – even…

Snapshots: Melkite Catholic parish…one-tenth full at the beginning of the Liturgy…practically full by the end. An experience so much like other Eastern Catholic liturgies, yet a bit different. We begin and then we…go.  For an hour we stand, bow, chant…Lord Have Mercy  too many times to count. We cross ourselves, we follow processions around the…

I really need one more day….school started today but because I was so uptight about that and everyone’s emotional health which I can’t help taking on as some sort of never-ending project (I know, I know. Can’t help it), plus my second son’s upcoming at least year-long-journey to Rome then Vietnam (he’s embarking on the…
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