Orthodixie

During the February 22 episode of the NBC-TV sitcom, “Committed,” two non-Catholics are mistakenly given Holy Communion at a Catholic funeral Mass. Nate, who is Jewish, and Bowie, a Protestant, don’t know what to do with the Eucharist, so they make several failed attempts to get rid of it. For example, they try slipping it into the pocket of a priest, dropping it on a tray of cheese and crackers, etc.

At one point, the priest, who is portrayed as not knowing the difference between the Host and a cracker, goes to grab the “cracker” from a tray of appetizers; he initially balks when he discovers that it is the last one. Then he changes his mind, saying, “Oh, what the hell.” By far the most offensive scene occurs when Nate and Bowie accidentally flush what they think is the Host down the toilet.

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James writes:

I guess I don’t understand why the bishop’s sexual practices are seemingly more important than his inability to uphold the fundamental truths of Christianity. And at the same time, I wonder about the apparent consistence of both issues finding union with one another.

Ought we Orthodox be doing more to show conservative Anglicans a more positive way out? A way of union, rather than division? Could we do so on some official level?

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Fr John Whiteford, shown here in 2001 with my son & his Godson, Basil, posted recently about his early investigation of Orthodoxy. As you can see, Fr John ended up hairy & bedecked.

Back before he was a priest, I traveled to Houston to serve St Jonah‘s feast day services. Fr John picked me up wearing a cassock & cowboy boots; dark sunglasses for the glare, and a camouflage ball cap to hold the hair down while traveling with the windows open. I was being chauffeured by ZZ Top.

All of this is to say, Fr John, that your Godson and I went to a Monster Truck show last week. If you couldn’t imagine yourself dressed like a priest, I never saw myself at a Monster Truck show.

You’d have fit right in. ‘Cept maybe for the dress.

Saying “I love you” in today’s world, assuming youngsters still do, seems tantamount to saying “I Do” — back when young folks still did. But most don’t, at least not within the popular media, and therefore sex is deemed the be-all-end-all of relationships.

The devils must laugh. Sex, sex, sex. As if we invented it. One thing’s for certain, we’ve made misuse of it. We’ve elevated sex to virtue status. Once we made sex, in and of itself, a virtue, then God’s got to be for it … right? I mean, after all, God is love … right? Obviously something’s wrong.

It wasn’t long ago that twisted thinking imagined Our Lord’s relationship with John, the Beloved Disciple as, well, twisted. Now that Gnosticism and Goddess-ism is all the rage — again — it’s Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

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In light of Fr Kirby’s passing, this post has moved H E R E.