The Eastern Rite

UNE IS GAY PRIDE MONTH. I’m never very excited with the the idea. But not so annoyed as the folks who call it “Gay Shame Month.” I’m reposting this from the Sarx blog. It’s what we all need for Pride Weekend, I think. I know no one has asked. Many of you may not even [...]

Hebrews 11:33-12:2 Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30 On the coincidence of All Saints Sunday and Memorial day weekend…. But many who are first will be last, and the last first. Tomorrow the President will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, in a ceremony that will be repeated over and [...]

Acts 11:19-26, 29-30 John 4:5-42 Christ is Risen! Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” Do you have a “fish” sticker on your car? Or, if not [...]

Hebrews 9:11-14 Galatians 3:23-29 Mark 10:32-45 Luke 7:36-50 After faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. St Mary Sunday is one of those days in the Orthodox year with two Gospels and two Epistles. The cross-reading of Hebrews and Galatians, Mark and Luke, creates an interesting experience, no? The life of St [...]

Hebrews 6:13-20 Mark 9:17-31 Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! One of the things I greatly admire in Orthodoxy is her sense of inclusion. I’ll pause for a minute and let that sink in. Let me try again: one of the things I greatly admire in Orthodoxy is her willingness to include persons all over [...]

Hebrews 1:10-2:3 Mark 2:1-12 On the Second Sunday of Lent we commemorate St Gregory Palamas. Gregory was a writer from the 13th and 14th Centuries, living in Thessaloniki or Thessalonica – which most Americans will know vaguely as a city where St Paul sent a couple of Letter. His writing solved a crucial problem in [...]

The Sunday of the Last Judgement: Meatfare Sunday Epistle: 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2 Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling-block to the weak… So by your knowledge those weak believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. But when you thus sin against members of your family, [...]

Epistle: 1 Cor 6:12-20 Gospel: Luke 15:11-32 The Sunday of the Prodigal is always a hard one for me: not because I am a failure, but because I need nearly every day – to “come to myself” as the Son does in the story, and realise that life in my Father’s house is so much [...]

1 Timothy 4:9-15 (NRSA) Luke 19:1-10 (NRSA) It’s falling very early this year, no? It’s still mid-January. January 4th if you’re on the old calendar! (I wonder if, on the OC, it’s possible for this Sunday to fall in December? Anyway…) Nex Sunday the Triodion starts. We prepare for Lent. The Journey starts today! And [...]

1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43 Psalm 84 Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 Psalm 34:15-22 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:56-69 Year B – Season after Pentecost – Proper 16 (21) : Revised Common Lectionary Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. ECAUSE OF This? Because o what? In the preceding [...]