Coming Soon!

Christ is risen! Xpuctoc Bockpece!

It was over five years ago that, in a burst of enthusiasm, I decided to launch this blog. At the same time, I had started four other blogs: one to comment on current events (Observations); one to use to post my sermons (Reflections); one to present an explanation of what we believe as Orthodox Christians, and why (Ancient Religion); and one to be a sort of "online catechism class." (Orthodoxy 101) Only the first two ever went beyond the initial post; and even these suffered from neglect, as the "shine" of blogging became a grind, and then the grind became too demanding, and everything "shut down" for a while.

I'm not sure I can say what, exactly, has changed to bring me to revive these blogs -- and I do intend to be posting in all five very soon. The best explanation I can offer is that, as our parish has moved through time and space, the single most effective way we have found to announce our presence to the larger world has been through the internet. As such, it seems to me that the more places where we can be "found," the better -- for we don't have the resources to match the mission: to bring as many people as we can reach to an awareness of the Orthodox way of life and belief, and to invite as many of these people as possible to join us on the journey from life in this world to life in the Kingdom of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Having this as our responsibility, together with my responsibility as a priest to proclaim the good news of our salvation in Christ, well...

The cycle of readings is completed once every quarter. Ideally, then, just to keep things neat and tidy, I should have started April 1st (if not January 1st). This means that I'm some twenty-two days or so behind at the start! But the third quarter doesn't begin until July 1st -- and I'm afraid that if I wait until then to start "neat and tidy" it will never happen! So I'm going to start now, and hope to be posting multiple entries in an effort to "catch up" to the cycle of this quarter.

Not having done this before, I'm not sure what form it should take. I hope that those who read this site will feel free to offer comments and suggestions.