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    OT: Some Good News

    I've been a part of CF for about eleven years now, so I consider some of you close enough to break this news. While down in El Salvador, I proposed to my girlfriend and she said, "yes". I'm engaged! Her name is Yanira. She has an eighteen-month old son named Josue (pronounced ho-sway) and...
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    Something Nice on TV

    One of the only TV shows on now that I watch with any consistency is "Last Man Standing". For those who don't know, they're on their sixth season and it stars Tim Allen as a father with three daughters. One of the things that I like about the show is that its funny (duh), but unlike most it...
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    OT: Let us all take a moment...

    So, with all the polemical, argumentative, invasive and pretty much hostile posting lately, I would like everyone's attention to consider a few things (yes, the arguing Roman Catholics are included in this as well - you know who you are) We are not perfect. We're human, we sin, we kinda suck...
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    Prayer request for former poster

    I don't know how many here remember a poster long ago with the screen name "DonVA". I met him in person while I lived in Virginia and we remained friends on Facebook. It appears he had a medical issue of some sort. Don't know the details, but the posts read that he's slowly recovering with the...
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    Morning Travels and Other Thoughts

    Christ is Risen! Christos is auferstanden! Etc etc etc. So I made it home after a very long road trip in time for Good Friday. 4,748 (or so) miles were had. Also was in town to witness a good person in the parish to be ordained to the priesthood, visited our fearless leader Archbishop BENJAMIN...
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    OT: Cross country driving

    So this April I'm due to FINALLY leave Virginia. I'm transferring to Hawaii, going on deployment within months of getting there, and the moving back to Washington state with my soon-to-be new squadron. My goal is to be home for Pascha, May 1, and I'm anticipating about three weeks of road...
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    Some GOOD News (for a change)

    After the last year and a half of being in Virginia and accepting that this is my spiritual desert of sorts, a year and a half of complaining, about being in this state (though to be fair I'm actually in Idaho for another week on a work thing :doh:), after a few years of facing great...
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    A simple request of prayer

    This is difficult for me because I hate asking for help. If I seem a bit irritable, irate, on-edge or simply grumpy for the next few weeks I apologize now. I applied for orders last Friday for a billet that's at one of the US bases in the Gulf (Arab or Persian - your choice!) and I find out at...
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    Armenian Muslims Returning to Christianity

    I've heard reports of this before, but now I saw this article on Facebook. If it is true, than glory to God! :clap: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/79464.htm
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    A New Icon

    Remember the 21 Coptic Martyrs? There's an icon for them! Tis here: 21 New Martyrs Icon (Coptic Christians Beheaded by ISIS) | Legacy Icons A portion of the cost goes to supporting Coptic orphans. (on a side OCD related not I did notice that the icon was "signed" which seems odd -...
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    Is St. Patrick an Orthodox Saint?

    Yes, I know that he is :P However, it is the title of an article that I saw in the Facebook feeds (okay it's a couple years old) and thought that with all the negativity going on both here and in the real world it would be good for all of us to read something nice and edifying for a change ;)...
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    OT: Calling All One True Old Posters etc

    So, I wandered into the General Theology forum for the first time in five years. Heretical I know, however, the Internet had been too quiet for me during Lent and in a fit of boredom mixed with what can only be described as blind zealousness I craved a struggle. Well, one of the posters there...
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    Memory Eternal

    I know that this is a few days late (as the funeral has already taken place), however one of the priests of my former home parish fell asleep in the Lord earlier this week. His name was Fr. John Garvey. He had retired a few years ago from New York and moved to Washington state to be closer to...
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    Charlie Hebdo

    Remember O Lord thy servants Stephane, Jean, Bernard, Georges, Philippe, Bernard, Mustapha, Elsa, Michel, Frederic, Franck, and Ahmed; grant them rest and may their memories be eternal! :crosseo::crosseo::crosseo::liturgy: Names taken from the BBC. This thread is for the memories of the...
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    Prayers needed.

    We've all experienced doubt in our faith and lately I've been going through the most severe which I've ever faced. Being in a part of the country where the mentality of ordinary people is a complete 180 from what I was raised in does not make this any easier. I need your prayers. I've...
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    OT: A rant (long-ish).

    I've had a bad couple of days. So, last night I was invited to go to Bush Gardens here in Virginia with the following people: a friend of mine from the language school and his wife, his brother (knew them both in boot camp) and his wife, and their parents visiting from out of state. This...
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    A small request of prayers...

    Monday and Tuesday afternoons I will be retaking the military's language test for Arabic. Any and all prayers will be greatly appreciated. While I'm feeling much more confident and prepared this time around and doing smart things like getting good sleep this weekend; there is still a bit of...
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    Prayers.

    A few things. For starters, for those who either don't know or have forgotten I'm studying Arabic for the Navy and tomorrow (Thursday) I begin my final test here with speaking. I'm feeling pretty good about it, but Monday and Tuesday will be reading and listening. Those two I'm a bit nervous...
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    OT: Request of prayer

    I always try to avoid politically related posts, but this time I, sadly, must make an exception. Anyone following American news knows that there are threats of a shutdown of the federal government. I hope and pray this does not happen because it means that the uniformed military (people like...
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    OT: A small rant

    We as a nation (that is Americans) have a bad habit of treating the symptoms and not the cause of the disease. Now, as Orthodox we typically know that sin is the cause of most evil in the world; the rest being our own actions and reactions to things. This tragedy in Connecticut is no...
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