Friday Frivolity: How good and lovely it is…
Tag: Orthodox
Trisagion Films
One of my new favourite websites is Trisagion Films. On this website you find lots of high qualify videos on a wide range of videos concerning Eastern Christianity, such as St. Ephrem and the vesting prayers prior to Divine Liturgy:
Wise Words on Wednesday: Celibacy
Celibacy…is not a repression of the natural. It is, rather, a fulfillment of the natural desires by supernatural means.
– First Comes Loves, Scott Hahn
Friday Frivolity: Exorcism
My great hope
When I first heard that Jorge Bergoglio had been declared Pope, I immediately looked him up on my Conclave Android app and my eyes were quickly drawn to the sentence which said that in Argentina he had been the Ordinary for Eastern-rite Catholics without an Ordinary of their own rite.
I was hopeful that, given this background, his pontificate would be particularly sensitive to the the Christian East. I have not been disappointed.
Even in these first few months that he has been Pope, both East and West have made gestures of friendship, building on the great work of their predecessors. Inspired by this, I started to consider what I could do.
As I was thinking about this, I remembered an article I had read over at Ramblings of a Byzantine Catholic where it said that the East and West remain divided “because our love has grown cold”. So, if that’s the case, what could I do to nurture and express love for our Orthodox brethren?
Friday Frivolity: Hey Girl
My friend Jenna, a life-long lover of Ryan Gosling, sent me a link to Eastern Orthodox Ryan Gosling, a variant on the Hey Girl meme. Here were some of my favourites:
Covered By The Cross
Happy Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross!