Archive for March, 2006

Winter Update

2 March 2006

I’m not sure if any of you still read this blog, especially after my long silence this winter, but I thought I’d put down some events from these last few months.
I spent Christmas at St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Ohio. I was there two weeks, until after St. Basil’s day. I even found the […]

David Copperfield

19 March 2006

I finished reading David Copperfield last week. What a marvelous book! I think it is the finest I’ve ever read. It is told with such warmth and good humor, and where have I seen such pure-hearted characters? I feel they are friends I shall never forget: Agnes, Traddles, Ham, Pegotty and her brother, Emily, Dick, […]

St. Maximus Bibliography

22 March 2006

Here is a bibliography I wrote for St. Maximus. It also includes an account of his life.

Verba

24 March 2006

I finally got around to posting my Greek and Latin vocabulary builder. If you’re interested, you are welcome to use it!

St. Maximus Intro

25 March 2006

Here is an introduction to St. Maximus I wrote.

What’s West is Evil; and Evil, West

25 March 2006

I couldn’t get any sleep last night. The following gripe, among other things, kept running through my head. In a vain effort to get some rest, I penciled down these sentences, in between tossing and turning, on the modern Orthodox mentality that what’s west is evil; and evil, west:
This is a sadly common approach in […]

Home Sick with the Computer

25 March 2006

I’ve been fighting a nasty cold for about a week and a half now, especially since Wednesday. These last few days I’ve mostly slept, with a bit of school writing when I felt up to it and some computer tinkering when I didn’t. That explains all the recent tech-related additions to this blog. I’ve used […]