Orthodixie

Vladyka Alexander (Mileant), Bishop of Buenos Aires and Southern America reposed in the Lord September 12 (August 30 O.S.). Pannikhida service will be held at Holy Trinity Church, Oxnard, California, at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 13.

Vladyka’s body will be brought to church on Thursday, September 15, and there will be Pannikhida service at 7pm.

On Friday, September 16, the Burial service will begin with the Divine Liturgy at 9 am, and then hierarchical burial service at 11 am.

Bishop Alexander is known to many Converts for his tireless efforts in producing Orthodox missionary tracts and developing an online course in Orthodox Theology.

May his memory be eternal!

Houston, Texas (IOCC) – Orthodox Christians in Texas have worked tirelessly since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast to deliver emergency supplies, welcome those displaced from neighboring states and partner with International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) to provide relief to the region.

“The devastating hurricane which has ravaged the Gulf Coast states of our country… is a reminder to all of us that tragedies in the world are dramatically increasing and that one’s life can be taken in the twinkling of an eye,” wrote Metropolitan Isaiah of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Denver in a letter to parishes encouraging them to respond through IOCC.

Orthodox parishes in the Metropolis of Denver and throughout the United States have collected funds for the effort and prepared health kits for the hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee the devastated region.

Just days after the hurricane, when people were retreating from New Orleans, Leon Vezos organized a shipment of emergency items and headed to Baton Rouge, La. After loading a truck with water and Gatorade over the Labor Day holiday weekend, Vezos personally drove the supplies which were distributed to rural communities in and around Alexandria, La.

Fr. Gabriel Karambis, Dean of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, where Vezos is a member, has encouraged Orthodox Christians in the community to join in the effort and made available the resources of his parish. Orthodox Christians throughout the city have worked to prepare additional supplies for transfer to Baton Rouge, La. The effort resulted in truckload of urgently-needed diapers, water, Gatorade, clothes and health kits.

Houston, along with Baton Rouge, La. and Mobile, Ala., has become a center for IOCC operations where staff from its Emergency Response Network is coordinating aid to survivors of the disaster.

The IOCC Emergency Response Center in Houston is hosted by St. George Antiochian Church, which is providing office, storage space, and accommodations for the IOCC staff.

IOCC’s emergency response network, comprised of trained Orthodox clergy and their U.S. parish communities, provides emergency services to people struggling to recover from natural or man-made disasters.

Contributions to IOCC’s Hurricane Disaster Response Fund may be sent to IOCC, “Hurricane Relief,” P.O. Box 630225, Baltimore, MD 21263-0225. Donations may also be made online at http://www.iocc.org or by calling toll-free 1-877-803-IOCC (4622).

Founded in 1992, IOCC is the official humanitarian aid agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA).

AFRICANS say they have had enough of the Church of England’s endless discussions over the ordination of gay vicars and same-sex blessings. With help from their colleagues in Latin America, African primates, bishops, priests and laymen are getting ready to strike out on their own and establish a new Anglican Church based in Egypt.

Here’s the SCOOP.

I think we’ve been trained or conditioned to expect the Creator of the cosmos to say, in the manner of the tweedy English uncle in an old movie, “Well, gosh, things really are awful, aren’t they? It’s just terrible, just terrible. Hurricanes, plagues, wars, locusts, cancer, tsuanmis, earthquakes . . . well, you know, damn poor thing this world. Now, I know you’re thinking this is all my fault, and I absolutely understand why you do, don’t blame you a bit, but do give me a chance to explain, there’s a good lad.”
H E R E .

“I’m … too sexy for this job! Too sexy …”

“Teacher in mini-skirt fired by diocese”.

Bonci said she separated from her husband in 1995 and divorced in 2000 and that both events had not affected her job or raised eyebrows from her employers at the time.

She said reports that fathers accompanied their children to religion classes so they could look at her meant little to her as long as the children came to class.

“When a woman is considered too sexy and attractive in a small town it becomes a big thing,” she said.

And H E R E.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad; you are not like us.

— St. Anthony the Great

“He pointed out of the window of the room in which we stood, saying that he ‘remembered seeing that cross’ out there—pointing to the steel girder cross that somehow emerged from the collapse of the towers.”

Pic taken from here.
H/T to Dawn.