Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
It was noticed that Patriarch Pavle has nice shoes: light, comfortable, shiny leather…
“Yes,” he smiled. “They’re comfortable, I can go on long walks…”
“Where did you buy them?”
“Ah, buy them…”, he said with a wave of his hand to signify that the conversation was over.
But behind these shoes is a little strange tale: the shoes, in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When watching the cases of child abductions which have been reported with some frequency in recent times particularly on the 24 hour news channels one is given the impression that this sort of thing never happened before; that it’s some new phenomenon. I think the only new thing about it is that in our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Christmas, probably more than any other of the feasts, is for the family. We see this not only in the icon in which the Christ-Child is lying in the manger, swaddled in the love and protection of His family but also in the popular association that Christmas has with presents, which are almost always and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The photograph below was taken in the early evening hours of the last night of 2007. It was a calm, sunny but cold winter day in Hermitage. After taking the picture I went to pick up some groceries, read a little more of Auchincloss’ The Rector of Justin and dozed off, hoping that the nap [...]
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