Thoughts on Fasting, Training, Self-Sacrifice, and the Intersection of Religious Practice and Lifting I am an Orthodox Christian. I was baptized and chrismated in a “Slavic” Orthodox Church before Easter 2011. I write that at the outset so that you will understand the next part, which is the fact that usually the date of Pascha (Easter) in the Christian East—Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, along with, I suppose, whatever remnants of Nestorian Christianity still remain—and Easter in the Christian West (Catholicism and Protestantism) fall on different dates. (This is not the place to discuss why they are on different dates, but if you want to read more, here is an article last year from The Greek Reporter: “ Why Orthodox and Catholic Easterare on Different Dates .”) But this year they fall on the same date later this month (April 20 th ), which means that all Christians worldwide are in the middle of Lent as I write these words. ...
I hope you update your blog soon man. I've been a fan for years and always enjoy reading your entries. It's dissapointing to keep checking back here and seeing no new blog posts. I hope everything is ok with you(?)
ReplyDeleteAll the best C.S.