Anne in her comment to the post yesterday, had a good point. If you subscribe to this porno magazine called Vanity Fair, and you get this issue, send it back unread with a note. But I know as well as you that most people wont because we just don’t care. We have our heads in the sand and we don’t care what happens. Wake up America!

Last week some 400 children were removed from the compound of a sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later day Saints in Texas due to child abuse. Perhaps the government should raid the studios of the Disney Channel! Now we find out that more than half of these children are either pregnant or have been pregnant. What are we doing to our children!

Parents need to wake up and raise their children the way they should be raised. Saturday in a town close to the Village a woman left her three children one who is 3 years old and twins that are 2 months old alone in her apartment with the stove on and started a fire! So we find out that this upstanding citizen and mother of the year has a 10 year old child living with the grandmother in Florida and she has been having a 4 year relationship with a married man. So at the court hearing her lawyer said, wait for it, she is depressed! PLEASE! Sounds like she needs another hobby.

People our society is going to HELL and we need to take it back. We seem to be more concerned about getting everything we can then raising our children the way they should be raised. This Billy Ray Clown is just another example of where we are heading. They say the photos are tasteful and artistic. It all boils down to this, she is 15 and naked that is not art that Child Pornography and they should go to jail for it!

I was going to post a link to the pictures but I do not want to be part of spreading this filth!

How about a fixed date for Easter? Let’s say the first Sunday in April is now Easter or if that is too early pick another one. I don’t really think that would work and the mystery of when Easter is is great. The most asked question I get as a priest is Father, when is Easter?

From a personal stand point I think having Easter on a different day makes us Orthodox look like we cannot read the calendar. Why not have the same date at least.

Okay let the comments begin!

Someone this week asked me if I thought east and west would ever be united as we were for the first 1000 years of Christianity. I said I cannot see how that will happen as long as the east is not united with the east!

One of the happy, and sad moments for me during the Resurrection service on Saturday night was when we went outside to proclaim the Gospel and the bells from the Albanian Orthodox Church across the way were ringing. This church it literally across the street from us, there are some houses in between us so you cannot see the church, but I was thinking how sad this was that the 50 or so people at my church were separate from the 50 or so people at St. Nick’s! And there is another Orthodox Church in town as well. They by the way were celebrating Greek Easter!