A number of observations: Tomorrow is the first of December That’s a long way from the first of January Having finally watched this week’s Torchwood, I want to put off mind-reading for as long as possible Ikea officially serve the…
Month: November 2006
Daddy Cool
Some nice stuff on Patristics from the Way of the Fathers: The Fathers of the Church are a select group of early Christian teachers, usually numbered around a hundred. The Church has long revered them and given them a privileged…
Posted in Patristics, Tradition
JCBs forever
Remember last year’s JCB song that made it to number one at Christmas? Here’s a fantastic video of Nizlopi doing the song live.
Posted in Lighter Things
World AIDS Day
Tomorrow is World AIDS day. For some reading this that might stir very little in you. In this country at least HIV/AIDS has been perceived as a disease of promiscuity, largely but not in any sense exclusively amongst the gay…
Come back Glen Campbell, all is forgiven
I can’t decide yet whether this little tune, out on Monday, is absolutely brilliant or altogether the other end of the spectrum.
Posted in Lighter Things
SORry, that’s going too far
There is a huge amount of fuss in the UK papers at the moment about the impending implementation of the new Sexual Orientation Regulations. The regulations, being pushed through to begin in Northern Ireland on the 1st January and at…
Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
