Garth Road Inn...

Typically I am bound to my desk studying or my kids playing or with my wife (watching LOST!). But every now and then I have the opportunity to journey out to my fav. NY pub near SVS - Garth Road Inn.

Last night I had the pleasure of embibing a frosty beverage with my friend Prof. Dr. Peter Bouteneff. He taught my Dogmatic Theology 101, 102 and Ecumenism classes. I must say these were among my fovorite classes; some of the most practical for answering daily life theological questions.

Our evening jumpped from one topic to the next - straying from His new book on Genesis to the American political scene and ROCOR. It was a lovely time with a good friend and brother in Christ.

Along the way Dn. Caleb and Jeremy (also SVS buds) showed up to say hello.














Dn. Caleb and I spent the remainder of the evening talking "Tarazi" (one of our NT/OT Prof.'s)

It was a good night at the Garth!

DnJM

raining and reading... what could be better?

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
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"Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship
is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2):
for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If
friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer
their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us
sympathize with them with all our heart."

St. Ambrose

Its true...

I totally stink at posting to my blog don't I... OK, well ˆ am not making any huge promises to literary greatness, but I will post some quotes I am reading and some thoughts now and again. Perhaps this will spur me on. By the by, I am being ordained to the Priesthood this weekend - I am utterly speachless. This the fulfillment of a lifelong calling and the beginning of more than I can imagine. Your prayers would be great...

In Christ - DnJM

"For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is
no difference between his own or another’s, or between Christians and unbelievers,
or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above
the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man,
he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there
is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and
in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28)."

St. Maximos the Confessor
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to
us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness
and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is
Where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa