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The List…

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So several years ago, after my return from Seattle to San Diego, I sat down and thought about what I was looking for in a wife.

Today I get married.

Here’s the list…

  • Compassionate. Endeavours to welcome newcomers. Takes an interest in the lives of others – asks questions. Has a heart that breaks for other people. 
  • Thoughtful. Actively looks for ways to bless others.
  • Servant-hearted. The sort of person who will see something which needs doing and will just get to work. Has initiative.
  • Laughs easily. Doesn’t take herself too seriously.  Can look on the bright side of things.
  • Generous with her time and resources.
  • Knows when it’s time for complaining to come to an end and it’s time to tough it out.
  • Independent. Has own thoughts, ideas and goals.
  • Self-forgetful. Her first thought will not be “How will this affect me?” Doesn’t talk about herself all the time.
  • Supportive and actively encourages others.
  • Passionate about stuff. 
  • Loves music. Would loudly sing along to the car radio and not care if she looked crazy.
  • Has good, solid, stable friendships with other females.
  • Loves books. Would think that a Sunday on the couch reading together would be a day well spent.
  • Gentle in speech. Thinks carefully about how her words come across. Doesn’t swear. Doesn’t gossip.
  • Likes the simple things in life. Doesn’t need lots of make-up, jewellery, expensive dinners or costly entertainment in order to be happy.
  • Up for an adventure or doing something new.
  • A bit of a nerd.

Mission Accomplished.

Eastern Fasting Regulations

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Since I often have to look up the fasting regulations in the Byzantine Church, I thought I’d do a quick post on my own blog so I know where to find them…

Fasting Seasons

The Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church sui juris of Pittsburgh observes the following four seasonable observances:

1. The Philip’s Fast
The forty day fasting period, November 15th – December 24th

2. The Apostles Fast
The 8-42 fasting days between the Monday after All Saint’s Sunday and June 28th.

3. The Dormition Fast
The fourteen day period between August 1st-14th.

4. The Great Fast
The forty day fasting period from Pure Monday to Palm Friday (which is then extended through to Holy Saturday).

Kinds of Fasts

Simple Fast

No meat or meat products. Eggs and dairy allowed. It is required on:

  • Wednesdays of the Great Fast.
  • All Fridays of the year, except during major celebratory periods:
    • The week following the Publican & Pharisee
    • Bright Week
    • Pentecost Week
    • The Feast of the Nativity
    • …or any major Feast of the Lord or Theotokos which falls on a Friday

Strict Fast

No meat, eggs or dairy. It is required on Clean Monday and Good Friday.

Dispensations

  1. Expectant and nursing mothers
  2. Infants
  3. Those in poor health

Wise Words on Wednesday: Complaining without proposing a solution is called whining

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech delivered April 23rd, 1910 in Paris.
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