Have you ever seen a diaconate ordination like this?
A reader sent this my way, with this explanation: Deacon Greg, Knowing your interest in all things deacon-ish, I thought I’d pass along a video showing scenes from the ordination of a new deacon in...
View Article“A great day for all of the Catholic Church”: First Maronite Catholic...
As Anthony Joseph Alles is ordained, two deacons hold up a cloak called the bashkoon so that it shielded the man being ordained from view. (photo: Catholic Sentinel/Ed Langlois) Details, from The...
View ArticleIllinois street renamed for miraculous icon
From our Orthodox siblings: Orthodox Church officials joined Archpriest Nicholas Dahdal and officials from the Town of Cicero in commemorating the miracle of the Tearing Icon known as “The Miraculous...
View ArticleWas your sprinkling like this on Sunday?
If not, why not? Ladies and gentlemen: this is how it’s done. Spare no one. Leave no drop behind. Attack the faithful with holiness! Douse the world with grace until it is shivering and saturated and...
View ArticleWhy I’m celebrating Easter a second time
An explanation: Catholics in Jordan will celebrate Easter on April 12, in accordance with a new agreement that unites the day of the Easter celebration for Orthodox and Catholic believers in the Holy...
View ArticleJourney to Jordan: Waking up to the Muslim call to prayer—and walking ancient...
After yesterday’s long plane ride, I slept fitfully but somewhere around 5 a.m. found myself hearing the not-too-distant call to Muslim prayer—a sound both mournful and humbling. I figured it was a...
View ArticleJourney to Jordan: The most amazing Easter of my life
On a cold and drizzly Saturday night, I found myself standing in a small, crowded Catholic church 6,000 miles away from my home parish in Queens, and I couldn’t help but weep. Dozens of people were...
View ArticleJourney to Jordan: Easter with the Melkites
After spending a half hour or so at the local Roman Catholic church, we hopped into our van and drove a few minutes away to join the liturgy at the St. Peter and St. Paul Melkite Catholic Church in...
View ArticleJourney to Jordan: witnessing a Melkite wedding
After leaving Petra this morning, bound for The Dead Sea, we stopped at a Greek Melkite Catholic Church, St. George, and caught part of a traditional wedding ceremony. This was something to see. And it...
View ArticleJust another typical Catholic wedding—complete with gunshots
My traveling companion and blog neighbor Marge Fenelon captured on video a particularly lively part of the Greek Catholic Melkite wedding in Jordan I wrote about last week: the entrance of the bride...
View ArticlePatriarch Bartholomew on the encyclical: “We count it a true blessing”
Some smart person at TIME magazine sought an exclusive response to the new encyclical from the man dubbed “The Green Patriarch” — and the essay he’s written helps put this vital new work in an...
View ArticleHistoric meeting between pope and patriarch could be near
View image | gettyimages.com Let us pray: An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is “getting closer every day,” a senior Orthodox prelate said in...
View ArticleA priest’s wife tells her story
Over at CNEWA, we’ve just posted online the Summer edition of our award-winning magazine, ONE. The issue features a fascinating glimpse into the life of a married Orthodox priest in suburban Chicago...
View ArticleAdvice for new deacons: “Serve, serve serve, but always get a blessing”
From the Ukrainian Orthodox blog Good Guys Wear Black, some wisdom that could easily be applied to us in the Roman Catholic tradition: I have talked with many deacons and priests about the diaconate...
View ArticleNotre Dame becomes first Catholic university in U.S. to offer regular...
How cool is this? From Aleteia: Students and faculty at the University of Notre Dame who go to the university’s chapel on Sundays may be hearing something different from the usual Mass opening of “In...
View ArticleBridge-builder: Pope Francis donates 100,000 euros toward building Austria’s...
From The Tablet in the U.K.: Pope Francis has donated 100,000 euros (£90,000) towards the first Orthodox monastery that is being built at St Andrä in Austria’s easternmost province of Burgenland. At a...
View ArticleBehold: the youngest bishop leading a diocese in North America
From our Eastern siblings: At 44, Bishop Milan Lach is the fifth bishop of the Byzantine Ruthenian Eparchy of Parma and the youngest bishop to head a diocese in North America. He also is the...
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