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Monthly Archives: May 2006
christianity explained
and it’s absolutely freaking hilarious.
especially this part:
Orthodox
For many years, American scholars believed the Orthodox were, like leprechauns, unicorns, and Eskimos, purely the product of the fanciful imaginations of medieval writers. Recent evidence leads us to tentatively conclude, however, that Eastern Orthodoxy may have somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 million adherents. Protestants tend to see the Orthodox as “Catholics with beards,” while Catholics confess to a haunting sense that they are simply “Orthodox without beards.”
The Interpretive Dance Theocrats
*eta*
the write-up on The DaVince Code is almost as good. I love this!
http://holyoffice.livejournal.com/
PJ the man cat
I realize that with all of the business surrounding the rabbits new home, finals week, house projects, and the like, I haven’t posted about PJ in a couple weeks.
He’s doing well, though introductions have been put on the back burner because of all the work being done in the house. I didn’t feel we needed to add agitated cats to the already hectic environment, so we’re waiting until things settle down a bit.
We’ve started letting him roam the house for a few hours each day, during the girls’ ‘nap time’; they sleep in my room and he gets a chance to explore his domain. He loves playing with the girls’ toys, and if it bothers them, they don’t show it; they’ll still play with them, which I’m assuming is a good sign. There are occasional hisses and growls exchanged under the door, but I don’t blame them for that.
Around the humans PJ is, to put it plainly, a socially awkward cat. He doesn’t seem to know what the appropriate response is in a given situation, and it has caused some tense misunderstandings. PJ doesn’t understand that he can’t attack our hands in play, and when we cry out, he looks slightly confused. He also has a hard time grasping that he does not own everything in this house, and last week he hissed at Hannah when she attempted to remove a key chain that he had been chewing on. He isn’t punished for this, of course, it’s a perfectly natural reaction. But it’s also inappropriate, so lately we’ve been working on “Remove, Redirect, Reward” and we’re seeing good results.
In many ways we’re still in the “Getting to know you…” phase. Having lived with his sisters since birth, their vocalizations and body language are easily understood, but PJ has a whole different set of mannerisms that we’ve had to learn. For instance, he doesn’t like a lot of physical contact. The girls allow a good deal of manhandling (gently, of course), but PJ gets really peeved if you don’t give him his space. So that’s a learning curve for us.
Other than that, he’s doing great. Perfectly healthy in every way, says the vet. He’s really taken to the raw food diet and his coat looks great. And if there’s one thing he does share with his sisters (besides amazingly good looks), it’s his vocabulary. That boy is talkative with a capital T. You’d think their father was a Siamese or something…
st. emily
today is my name day…
The holy and righteous Emily (also Emmelia or Emilia), is the mother of Saint Basil the Great and several other children who are saints of the Church. Churches of the Russian tradition keep her feast on January 1, along with her son Basil. Greek churches keep her feast on May 30, along with her husband Saint Basil the Elder and her mother-in-law, Saint Macrina the Elder.
There are precious few descriptions of Saint Emily’s life. She was the daughter of a martyr and the daughter-in-law of Macrina the Elder. Along with her husband Basil the Elder, she gave birth to ten children. She instilled the Orthodox faith in her children, teaching them to pray and devote their lives to the service of the Church.
As a result of her zealous yet maternal instruction of her children, five of them are commemorated as saints on the calendar of the Church: Saints Macrina, Basil, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theosebia, a deaconess. Therefore, Saint Emily is often called without exaggeration “the mother of saints.”
from Orthodox Wiki
