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seraphimsigrist

CHURCH

Nov 16, 2012 11:22

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rachel2205 November 16 2012, 16:58:04 UTC

I like those observations on play! Play can surely be a holy thing...

jones_casey November 16 2012, 18:57:16 UTC

perhaps george was so enamored of the hats because he can't grow one of the beards.

that is a remarkably artful interior. art i think is like play as described, and i think serves well as a bridge likewise.

seraphimsigrist November 16 2012, 19:07:33 UTC

I have never been to parma ohio but in fact my first priest in new york
fr vladimir berzonsky, then a young priest, left and went to start a parish
in the cleveland suburb of parma and now he is an elderly man...but I
had no idea what a substantial church he had built there, the assembly
had 600 voting participants and other observors etc so it is a large,
indeed a very large church for us in this country and also very somehow
interesting for a suburban church.

kelglitter November 16 2012, 19:01:37 UTC

I have at times in recent months found myself so happy I start to skip, or sing, or do the sorta-skip from the Wizard of Oz, or jog, or run, or whistle. These urges are I think to play, and are likely a result of overflowing joy. I wonder if much play is like that.

seraphimsigrist November 16 2012, 19:09:20 UTC

well 'play' in the sense of sports or for that matter chess can be
compulsive and in ways just as troublesome as 'real life', but the
play of which we are speaking is what you are experiencing and may
this happy time go on!

petervb42 November 19 2012, 01:30:07 UTC

Vladyka,
But I'm still heart-broken over what they did to Metropolitan Jonah.When I heard +Tikhon's opening statement on my computer, my heart sank. It ws so pedestrian- the usual cliches - after +Jonah's eloquence.