I was driving by St. Demetrius' Church on I-94 the other day, listening to my pop culture music and eating something definitely not fasting (on either calendar as I believe it was a Wednesday) and started making my bows to greet God and the Mother of God and St. Demetrius. In that moment of prayer in the midst of all my worldly abandonment and ( Read more... )

I'm up earlier than I set my alarm for. Does that mean I wasn't as tired as I thought I was :-)? God knows I guess. So long as I get to bed at a decent hour for the next few days I think it'll be okay ( Read more... )

So far the weekend in Chicago/Wheaton has been a good one. My train from Jackson arrived two or three hours late, so by the time I got a commuter train out to Wheaton I really only had time to drop off my bag at Josh's place and chill for a bit before leaving with him for the opera, which was in downtown Chicago a couple of blocks from Union ( Read more... )

We had a very interesting chapel today. I must confess I was also very much taken with the book I was reading during the performances, but the speaker was good nonetheless. He was from Exodus Ministries and spoke about how to love people struggling (or not struggling) with homosexuality while also challenging them to live a pure life devoted to God ( Read more... )