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The Virtues of Benoit Blanc (opens the original)
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One thing about me is that I love murder mysteries. Be it a book, movie, musical, etc., if it fits this genre, you can count on me to consume it with my full attention and store it away for a rainy day. I’ll never forget the feeling of falling in love with the closed door murder mystery writing style of Agatha Christie. Like everyone else, I attempted to solve the events of Murder on the Orient Express alongside my close personal friend, Hercule Poirot, and his magnificent mustache. To some, the
Clouds (opens the original)
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In our last post, we were talking about the light that will fill our new temple and how that radiance is a natural icon of the Uncreated Light of the Most Holy Trinity.We looked at a few passages from Holy Scripture, but if you actually looked up those passages (and, by the way, when someone quotes the Bible, you should always look up the passage for yourself), you will have noticed that when Holy Scripture describes the Uncreated Light, there’s just about always a cloud somewhere in that descri
Weekend Update 9/25/26 (opens the original)
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“’Cause Everybody Cries…”We’re starting today’s post with the guys from Athens, Georgia, because even though they kind of overdid the whole “Wings of Desire”/angelic/overcoat thing, the song does speak to a universal truth.There are times when life just really, really sucks.You raised your daughter in the Faith, but she is now a young adult, and, this weekend, she is moving in with her unemployed boyfriend.You’re fifty-four; you’ve just been lai
Back to the Garden (opens the original)
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I’ve realized lately that attending services at my parish, St. John the Forerunner, is a lot like going out to check on my garden. From a distance, I like to think that I know my garden. I can tell you it’s small, humble, and modest. In spite of any rumors you might have heard, I don’t actually run a plant hospice. Like most other gardens, it’s plagued with some issues here and there, and some plants are flourishing. We all know what a garden is.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
“Let there be Light…” (opens the original)
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Of course, that’s a quotation from the opening verses of Holy Scripture: Genesis 1.3. Light is the first of the Most Holy Trinity’s Very Good Creatures, and we’re hoping you thought about that Bible passage when you first viewed the virtual walk-through for our new temple.As you can see, the building is going to be filled with light. There will be lots of windows throughout the nave and The Holy Place, because, as our fellow creature, not only does the Light join with us in glorifying the Most H
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