My First Visit to Ladyminster

As many of you who follow my life on Facebook, and have read this blog before may know, I have been an Oblate of Saint Benedict for a number of years now. One of the privileges afforded to Oblates is that we may visit the monastery we are attached to. I have been trying to visit my monastery for at least as long as I have been a novice Oblate, and this year I was finally able to go.

On Saint Ignatius

I credit St. Ignatius of Antioch as being very instrumental in my becoming Orthodox, so I decided to write a blog post about why I feel that is.

Even More Wonderings of a Parent

 It has been just over 10 years since I posted the first Wonderings of a parent. And right around 6 years since I posted a follow up. This seems crazy to me, it doesn't seem like I've been poorly blogging for over ten years, and yet here we are.

The Significance of a Sacrament: Communion

 This will be the final post in this series, which means that I have actually finished a series that I started! Obviously, by the title you can tell, dear readers, that this blog post shall be about the sacrament of communion, also called the Eucharist.

The Significance of a Sacrament: Holy Matrimony

Funny, isn't it, that a man who is divorced should write about marriage? And yet, what else would I write about? I've been married for fourteen years, that's just a little shy of half my life. The woman I was married to has been my life for such a long time that quite honestly sometimes I don't know what else to write about. But this particular post isn't about my marriage - failed or otherwise - but about how the Church views the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.

The Joy of Shaving

 I know that it seems odd for a majestically bearded man such as myself to write a blog post about shaving, even more so the joy of shaving, but here we are - just another oddity in this crazy world.