Sunday night, CBS aired a special on the Ecumenical Patriarch on 60 minutes. While there was some clear misunderstandings in the reporting (for the record, the Ecumenical Patriarch is NOT equivalent to an Orthodox pope!), there were some interesting facts that were shared. Personally, I am always ambivalent on seeing Orthodox in the news...while the publicity is definitely beneficial in one sense (people now know we exist), it can be harmful as the Truth of Orthodoxy is distorted by reporters and media with a violently anti-traditionalist agenda. I hope that the few clips shared below are more beneficial than not:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6001624n
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6001620n
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6001622n
To watch the entire 60 minutes clip on the Patriarch (it's actually only about 20 minutes long), see the link below; but again, there are numerous factual errors, so please take it with a grain of salt:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6001717n
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Good intentions
I know I promised to update this blog regularly, in the hopes of sharing new married life inspirations, as well as happenings and pictures. Well, I guess better late than never!
Married life has, at least for the first five months, been a blur of one fantastic (and sometimes, not so fantastic) revelations after another. Like the fact that I no longer have to walk to class in 12 inches of snow (thank you Tuesday night blizzard); or the fact that if you leave all the lights on in the apartment all day like I used to at school, it's gonna cost you $92 for your electric bill (yikes!!). Thankfully, experience is proving the fantastic revelations are increasing and the not so fantastic ones are decreasing (at least, I hope).
I must just say from the start that I have married the most amazing man in the world. Who else would drop me off at school, drive back home to pick up his lunch which his wife left on the kitchen table, and then drive back to work to start his day - all the while avoiding expressing the immense annoyance I'm sure he felt, but never told me about??
Anyway, enough random ponderings. To the good stuff - the wedding and the honeymoon! Sometimes it seems like so long ago, and other times like only yesterday. I just finished going through our 2000+ pictures (for the fourth time) to send to our photographer so he can begin work on our wedding album, so I feel like my memory is sufficiently refreshed. As I recall, nothing significant whatsoever went wrong on our wedding day. Great weather, fantastic choir, amazing family and friends who pulled together all day to simultaneously organize, cater, and usher our wedding. Thanks to a fantastic last minute wedding gift from my uncle, they were able to take the evening off as our cleaning service picked up the mess :)
If you are interested in pictures, you can find them here.
Following the wedding, Frank and I began our honeymoon. This was also a near-perfect experience, if you don't count the quick trip to the ER or the near 3rd degree sunburn. Pictures from that lovely week can be found here along with captions detailing our daily exploits.
Finally, as we continue moving forward through the season of Christ's Nativity, I am excited to say we have thoroughly decorated our house (picture here) and have been diligently (though not always as diligently as I would like) reading through Fr. Thomas Hopko's, "The Winter Pascha". Definitely worth the time/money if you REALLY want to get into the "Christmas season".
I hope I can be more faithful in my updates in the future. I know that my life has much more in store for me than I can foresee at this point, and I look forward to sharing my thoughts.
Married life has, at least for the first five months, been a blur of one fantastic (and sometimes, not so fantastic) revelations after another. Like the fact that I no longer have to walk to class in 12 inches of snow (thank you Tuesday night blizzard); or the fact that if you leave all the lights on in the apartment all day like I used to at school, it's gonna cost you $92 for your electric bill (yikes!!). Thankfully, experience is proving the fantastic revelations are increasing and the not so fantastic ones are decreasing (at least, I hope).
I must just say from the start that I have married the most amazing man in the world. Who else would drop me off at school, drive back home to pick up his lunch which his wife left on the kitchen table, and then drive back to work to start his day - all the while avoiding expressing the immense annoyance I'm sure he felt, but never told me about??
Anyway, enough random ponderings. To the good stuff - the wedding and the honeymoon! Sometimes it seems like so long ago, and other times like only yesterday. I just finished going through our 2000+ pictures (for the fourth time) to send to our photographer so he can begin work on our wedding album, so I feel like my memory is sufficiently refreshed. As I recall, nothing significant whatsoever went wrong on our wedding day. Great weather, fantastic choir, amazing family and friends who pulled together all day to simultaneously organize, cater, and usher our wedding. Thanks to a fantastic last minute wedding gift from my uncle, they were able to take the evening off as our cleaning service picked up the mess :)
If you are interested in pictures, you can find them here.
Following the wedding, Frank and I began our honeymoon. This was also a near-perfect experience, if you don't count the quick trip to the ER or the near 3rd degree sunburn. Pictures from that lovely week can be found here along with captions detailing our daily exploits.
Finally, as we continue moving forward through the season of Christ's Nativity, I am excited to say we have thoroughly decorated our house (picture here) and have been diligently (though not always as diligently as I would like) reading through Fr. Thomas Hopko's, "The Winter Pascha". Definitely worth the time/money if you REALLY want to get into the "Christmas season".
I hope I can be more faithful in my updates in the future. I know that my life has much more in store for me than I can foresee at this point, and I look forward to sharing my thoughts.
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