St. Euphrosynos Taverna and Ouzeri 44 (2)

[MariaRegina]

Actually, I don't think I'll post the billboard announcement. The assignment was to make a PSA billboard that says the opposite of what you would expect to see.

I'm afraid I might offend someone though.

Best to err on the side of caution.

Some of the PSA announcements I have heard lately use shock value like the ones for alcoholism and strokes. They are good because they get our attention. Perhaps that is what the instructor was insinuating.

One that has been running for at least two years mentions a hearse when talking about teenage driving. When I was a teenager, it was all the rage to buy a hearse. I guess the Gothic style still prefers hearses.

The recent one about strokes talks about a guy who cannot make a call on his cell because his right hand is numb, so the announcer says to put the phone in his left hand to call 911 (or something like that).

 

[Photini]

No, the instructor wanted us to make a PSA that is opposite of what you would expect a PSA to say. Basically, mine just asserts that reusing & sharing syringes is the environmentally responsible thing to do.

 

[Michael G]

My only hopes would be that spring would come early and leave late.

Yeah, spring came for about 2 weeks, then left for another month of winter, and is now very late in arriving. Where is the ground hog? My puppies want to have words with him!

 

[Photini]

Yeah, spring came for about 2 weeks, then left for another month of winter, and is now very late in arriving. Where is the ground hog? My puppies want to have words with him!

Over here it's the same story, except it looks like we're skipping spring now and going right into summer. It's bumping 90 here today.

 

[Michael G]

Over here it's the same story, except it looks like we're skipping spring now and going right into summer. It's bumping 90 here today.

It will be close to 80 here tomorrow. On the bright spot, I saw the first cherry blossom on one of my 4 cherry trees today.

 

[Photini]

It will be close to 80 here tomorrow. On the bright spot, I saw the first cherry blossom on one of my 4 cherry trees today.

As soon as Allie wakes up we're going geocaching and I've got some pictures I need to take for class. Hopefully she'll be in a better mood after her nap. She was kinda crabby this morning.

 

[Michael G]

As soon as Allie wakes up we're going geocaching and I've got some pictures I need to take for class. Hopefully she'll be in a better mood after her nap. She was kinda crabby this morning.

I wanted to go to Phipps Conservatory this afternoon to shoot pics, but got stuck doing plumbing in the bathroom. I will have to go Monday as tomorrow afternoon, after DL, I am busy as well. I saw the first cherry blossom on one of my 4 cherry trees today!!!

 

[Blackknight]

The birds are eating my grass seed. Argh!

 

[MariaRegina]

The mocking birds are singing their sweet songs at 2 AM in the morning. Do they ever sleep?

One mocking bird gives a warning call every time we approach its nest even though we gave it some blueberries as a snack. Perhaps it wants some more.

 

[gzt]

Today was work day at church. In prep for Pascha and then the consecration the next week. A bird snuck into the basement so my wife and I chased it out.

 

[Antony in Tx]

I have got some incredible news, guys!!!

My 85 year old mother, Elizabeth, who was cradle Orthodox until about 13 years of age, has been a lifelong Methodist since her adolescence. She has been going to church with me for the past two years, but hasn't really been too interested in getting back into full communion, or so it seemed. She has asked about it a couple of times, and I keep telling her "talk to Father", but she never has made any move to do so.

So...today, I get home from my Saturday motorcycle ride and tell her I'm going to church and confession. She tells me, "I'm going to go, too. I'm just not sure what to say, because I've never done a confession." So I gave her the basics and told her to just tell Father Vasily what she had just told me. So we went to Great Vespers this evening, and after, we stayed for confession.

Long story short, my mother did her first confession, and is going to be re-chrismated back into the Church next Saturday! She will be out of town on Holy Saturday, so Father Vasily wants to do it next week! Man, that came totally out of nowhere. Father was beaming when I went in for my confession after hers.

GLORY TO GOD!!!

 

[Michael G]

Re-chrismated? If you were chrismated once, how can you be chrismated again?

 

[Antony in Tx]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

 

[Khaleas]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

Glory to God!

 

[ProScribe]

Today I went shopping and bought the proper attire for a church dress code

 

[Damaris]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

Glory to God!

I posted something awhile back about the service of chrismation to receive someone back into the Church who had fallen away. I know a lot of people haven't heard of it, but as you've pointed out, it may be done.

 

[MariaRegina]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

Glory to Jesus Christ!
Glory forever!

 

[Ortho_Cat]

Today I went shopping and bought the proper attire for a church dress code

well done, sir

 

[Michael G]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

If you were Chrismated and fell away from the Church, I do not see why the only things needed would be anything other than confession and communion. I have never heard of re-chrismation for someone who is returning to the church, even after a long absence?

 

[RobNJ]

Having fallen away and practiced as a Methodist for most of her life, and baptizing her children in that other church, etc. Father said that it would be a two step process...confession, followed by annointing with Holy Chrism to seal her reception back into full communion. I really didn't want to get into technicalities...I wanted to share that my Mom is coming back into full communion after 71 years of being away from the Chalice.

Glory to God!