Hi all,
My school has its OFSTED (Office for the standards of Education) inspection tomorrow and Friday (They called midday today to tell us) so I won’t be on. It is 10:30PM and I have just got back from preparing some of my notes.
Please keep me and my workmates in your prayers these next few days as we are going to be working 16 hour days and being scrutinised every second that we teach.
Do not approach the mysterious words in the scriptures without prayer and without asking help from God, saying: Lord, grant me to perceive the power that is in them. Deem prayer as the key to the insight of truth in scripture.
Saint Isaac of Nineveh
Has anyone ever been to a Mass that was less than 30 minutes long?
I had a very strange experience today, thats why I ask.
!!! שערוריה הוא
My work has masses which are around 20 minutes long every day.
I always remind the school’s priest that 1 weeks worth of masses at work (100mins) takes less time than one Liturgy on a Sunday for me.
The love which does not sacrifice is a barren love, without fruit.
HH Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
The icons in my Bedroom in my new flat.
In the makeshift Icon corner (There until I find a space to fir the rest of them) we have The Holy Prophet Daniel, St George, Christ the Pantocrator, the Theotokos, The Apostle St. Thomas.
On top of my dresser I have a large image of St Thomas left by J. It is not an Icon but looks beautiful so I have it up.
The home and offices of the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Homs was attacked by Syrian rebels on January 22nd 2013.
On Sunday, January 27, 2013, His Beatitude, the Most Blessed Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, was enthroned at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, DC.
In attendance at the Enthronement were members of the Orthodox Church in America’s Holy Synod of Bishops and guests representing several Orthodox Churches in North America and abroad.
Metropolitan Tikhon was elected OCA Primate at the 17th All-American Council held in Parma, OH on Tuesday, November 13, 2012.
Born Marc R. Mollard in Boston, MA on July 15, 1966, Metropolitan Tikhon was the eldest of three children born to Francois and Elizabeth Mollard.
After brief periods living in Connecticut, France, and Missouri, he and his family settled in Reading, PA, where he graduated from Wyomissing High School in 1984. In 1988 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Sociology from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, after which he moved to Chicago.
In 1989 he was received into the Orthodox Church from Episcopalianism and, in the fall of the same year, he began studies at Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, South Canaan, PA. One year later he entered the monastic community at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery as a novice. He was awarded the Master of Divinity degree from Saint Tikhon’s Seminary in 1993, after which he was appointed Instructor in Old Testament and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Old Testament, teaching Master level courses in the Prophets and the Psalms and Wisdom Literature. He also served as an Instructor in the seminary’s Extension Studies program, offering courses in the lives of the Old Testament saints, the liturgical use of the Old Testament, and the Old Testament in patristic literature.
He collaborated with Igumen Alexander [Golitzin]—now Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America—in the publication of “The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain” by Saint Tikhon’s Seminary Press.
In 1995, he was tonsured to the Lesser Schema with the name Tikhon, in honor of Saint Patriarch Tikhon, Enlightener of North America. Later that year, he was ordained to the Holy Diaconate and Holy Priesthood at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery. In 1998 he was elevated to the rank of Igumen, and in 2000, to the rank of Archimandrite.
In December 2002, he was named Deputy Abbot of Saint Tikhon’s Monastery. Two years later—on February 14, 2004—he was consecrated to the episcopacy at Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk Monastery Church. On May 9, 2012, he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop.
Metropolitan Tikhon Enthroned as the Primate of Orthodox Church in America
Prayer is being attached to God in all moments and situations of life. Then life becomes one prayer, without interruption or disturbance
Saint Basil the Great
The practical person deals with people as they are not as they ought to be. He does not expect fanciful idealism in those with whom he deals, but he realizes they are human, like everybody else, with all the weaknesses and defects of the human nature.
HH Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
Musings of an Orthodox Brit 