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cease to amaze, stupefy, dumbfound (and any other synonym one can manage for all of the preceding descriptives) how there are some within the body of the Church who are actively pursuing Holy Orders and yet fail to realize that the Church has managed to survive, and in fact flourish, without their existence for some 2000 years!  Their arrogance is ( Read more... )

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Well, THANKFULLY...Here we are at the start of the Second Semester and classes officially started today.  What a wonderful thing this time is, I thank the Lord every single day that I get to come here...yes even the one's that have exams on them!! 
So here's what I'm in for this term...

The Byzantine Church
Teleturgics II- Divine Liturgy    
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Who would have thought that I would be ANXIOUS for school to start!!??  That is how amazing this life at Seminary is...it has got me eagerly awaiting going back to 20-23 credit week (only 16 of which actually COUNT...figure that one out!).  I have been working during the Christmas break at a local company that enabled me to utilize my prior skills ( Read more... )

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In each and every way

You epitomized love.

The Love of a Father,

Which is not the love of a friend,

A compatriot, or an equal.

Yours was the archetype of Fatherly love

To instruct, to prepare, to guide…

And inevitably…to let go.

You denied the world its attempt

To shape you, to mold you

into the man Your father was.

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