This was a big weekend for St. Paul’s in Emmaus. Bishop THOMAS was in town to consecrate our altar and ordain three men to the subdiaconate. I drove down Friday afternoon and attended a dinner with the Bishop and about twenty members of the parish. He answered all our questions and spoke about his vision […]

Today was Founder’s Day, which is apparently a big deal, but I was down in Emmaus for church. Only a few of us were around at dinner. Here are some pictures of us scraping together the leftovers.

Michael and the soup.

Elias.

Steve with some cereal.

John, Fotios, and Michael.
Don’t worry Mom, most days they feed us really well […]

It has been raining steadily the last couple days. The folks at St. Paul’s will be glad, because everyone says that it’s been a dry summer. The autumn colors came out just a day or two before the rain. Today I snapped a few pictures from my window, hoping to get something before all the […]

I mentioned our dinner with Bishop BASIL. Here are a couple pictures:

Here you can see the bishop and all seven Antiochian seminarians except Raid. You can also see bits of a couple seminarian wives and the skouffia of Father Seraphim, another seminarian here at St. Tikhon’s.

And here I am with the bishop.

Here is Raid making photocopies of the Arabic alphabet. He is giving us lessons Wednesday nights. If I get time, perhaps I’ll figure out how to add some Arabic prayers to this site.

This is sunrise from my dorm room a couple weeks ago.

I am here at seminary, and I’ve finally connected my laptop to the wireless network in the dorm. That should make it easier to update this blog. For starters, I think I’ll post a letter I wrote last Saturday:
Hi all,
I have been at seminary for almost a month now, so it is high time I […]