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One of my biggest pet peeves is when people think ancient people were dirty 'primitives' with the brain power of a pea. They were human. They were created in the image and likeness of God. They discovered, the created, they imagined, they investigated, they theorized, they did everything that we...

I haven't been on Monachos.net for awhile, thanks for the suggestion! And thank you all for your support and prayers.

Sadly, I had need of looking up this thread again. Yesterday, the grandmother I mentioned before as suffering from depression was found having finally given in to that depression by overdosing on pills. The whole family is grief-stricken; my mom and her brother are now driving up together to...

It's a little thing, but the next few days and weeks are going to be pretty crazy for me: I have to move out of the apartment I'm subletting, get rid of the furniture, drive five hours to my parents' house for Thanksgiving and back, and wrap up my job before moving back to my parents' and then...

My 'secular' name is technically just a variation of Catherine so, considering St. Catherine was always poking into my life even before I became Orthodox, I was chrismated as Catherine. Which is technically my name. So when you call me by my 'secular' name, you're actually technically calling me...

Do you know the moment I realized I needed to be Orthodox I cried because I didn't want to convert? But I knew I couldn't be Protestant anymore, and I knew Orthodoxy had the Truth. So I went through with the conversion process and I haven't looked back. It definitely felt weird at first - the...

The view of confession as going to a doctor really helped me in gaining confidence about confessing. After all, talking to a doctor about physical things can be embarrassing, but necessary for your physical health. Confession can be embarrassing, too (and I embarrass easily), but afterwards I am...

Reading this thread is reminding me how thankful I am that I had the roommate I did. We disagreed on religion and politics and various things, but we had some shared values and interests that made things lot easier (While everyone else was getting knock-down drunk on the last day of classes, we...

Nationality: American Religion: Orthodox (convert from Protestantism) -Paternal Heritage --Paternal: Italian (immigrated in the late 1800s from Southern Italy; rumor has it that the family was originally Spanish) and Dutch (immigrated in the 17th century, but my great-great grandmother was...

My parents were a little worried, mostly because they didn't know anything about Orthodoxy. I did my best to alleviate their fears (mostly about extremism) and my mom just finished reading Frederica Mathewes-Green's book 'Facing East' which was very good about showing her how 'normal' Orthodox...

God forgives and I forgive. Please forgive me.

It took me awhile to warm up to the idea of praying to the Theotokos and the saints. I remember vividly the first time I prayed to Mary (before I even really started learning about Orthodoxy), and I felt absolutely blasphemous. But after awhile, it got to the point where I love to venerate the...

I feel the same as most here. I even had a dream the other night that, due to the terrible economy and stupid politicians, people from both political parties joined together to protest everything and I made a speech to warn about about how if the government didn't shape up they may end up facing...

I've attended both the St. Raphael of Brooklyn parish in Chantilly, Virginia (where I was chrismated) and Holy Cross in Linthicum, Maryland. Both have a large percentage of converts (including both priests), and they are both full of really great, welcoming people.

I was never troubled by Harry Potter. It has decent themes of good versus evil, and how doing the right thing is a choice, and a hard one sometimes, and how evil can drag one down into an abyss. I do think that it's important that a reader be mature enough spiritually not to be bothered by the...

"The Horse and His Boy". It's actually my favorite, but doesn't exactly fit with the rest of the series. That's why I tell people to start with LWW, and read it with Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the Silver Chair since they all have to do with the Pevensie/Scrubb family. By the...

I'm just putting it out there that, if you read the Chronicles of Narnia, start with "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", not "The Magician's Nephew". The publishers took an out-of-context quote from Lewis and reordered the series. You want publication order, not chronological order. That...

I'm in the position where I (having no present team) would probably like to root for the 49ers, since I used to be quite fond of them when they were under Steve Young. However, if I don't cheer for the Ravens, I might possibly be lynched - As it was, my pleasant re-watching of Fellowship of the...

I'm surprised by the negative reactions I've heard! I thought that the Hobbit did a better job staying close to the book/appendices/Quest for Erebor than LOTR did. Yes, it wasn't perfect, but it was a good movie and a remarkably good adaptation. For those who have issues with how the elves are...

There seems to be a lot of pessimism about (the lack of) Orthodox-related novels. Yes, there aren't a lot of Orthodox-related fiction other than the Dostoevsky-esque (that I know of). Well, then, write some! We are no longer in the era of publishers. I've read laments about the...