Constantly Reading Four Quartets

Very occasionally, I have the leisure to browse in libraries. Yesterday, while seaching for something, I had the serendipity to find Toward ...

{Click on the image for a larger view} The past week I have felt out of time. I have been travelling - Ottawa, Montreal, and home again. The...

HOMILY by St. Nikolai Velomirovic About the forms of the Messiah "And we saw that He had no form nor comeliness" (Isaiah 53:2). ...

I suppose that much could be said about the proposed plans St. Tikhon's Monastery has to develop a new monastery complex to replace its ...

From The Journals of Fr. Alexander Schmemann : Tuesday, March 1, 1977 I am reading Henri Bremond with enormous interest. I am always interes...

Bells are not a musical instrument but “‘…an icon of the voice of God.’ A Russian bell, he said, must sound rich, deep, sonorous, and clear,...

"When in my childhood I called upon You consciously for the first time, You heard my prayer; You filled my heart with the blessing of p...

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Metropolitan ANTHONY (Bloom) of Sourozh Sunday of Orthodoxy 16 March 1997 In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are keep...

This is a re-post of an entry from February, 2007. As I have my face to the ground during this Lenten service , the thought crosses my ...

"Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has n...

Many people are fasting from various electronic media practices, such as blogging, for Lent. I, on the other hand, am returning to it. For s...

Stories are long, too long; the moral is short - one word. You are that word, O Word of God. You are the moral of all stories. What the star...

See here for a Thanksgiving reflection. And why not here too for good measure.

A portable art gallery not big enough to require a building but not small enough to be written on a grain of rice.

{Click on the images for a larger view} Icon pin of St Xenia of St. Petersburg , by the hand of Abigail Maria Fernandes , 2007. In the earl...

This morning as I drove to pick up Krista from her night shift I had on the cd Putumayo Presents American Folk (2005). Though I've heard...

If you like faith-based roots music rising out of the "family band" tradition, you absolutely must check out the sensational Fries...

I grew up going to Summer Camp. Every year. Days and nights at camp were the fulcrom of the year, and initiated me from my earliest days in...

Anyone who truly knows me, knows that I am a serious and committed whistler. This has gotten me in trouble on various occasions - namely at ...

Thanks for your patience... more to come soon.

I usually resist as much as possible the easy road of simply responding "I'm busy" to most questions of how things are these ...

I just have to give congratulations to my esteemed collaborator in life, my brilliant and beautiful wife Krista, on receiving her Bachelor o...

Rest in Peace, Mary Douglas .

Thanks, Victoria for passing on this photo. Look how young Jesse looks! Fr. Dennis looks a little different too!

For the past ten days, Krista and I have been meandering. We went to BC, for my parents' 40th Anniversary, and then out to Victoria for ...

The college I arrived at as an arrogant 17 year old, and later taught at, has changed its name. I could not be more pleased about the chang...

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{I took this photo at our church on the Sunday of the Cross, a few weeks ago} The Fourth Part of "East Coker" IV The wounded surge...

Escarpment Blues If they blow a hole in my backyard Everyone is gonna run away The creeks won’t flow to the Great Lake below Will the wate...

I thank the Ochlophobist for his stalwart defence of the fruits of our Cistercian brethren's labours .

About a month ago, Krista and I happened to be watching late night TV (something we very rarely do), and came across George Stromboulopoulo...