Happy New Year!

I made a promise to start writing again with the beginning of the Church New Year….and here it goes! These are VERY random thoughts: 1) How come we as human beings tend to, very often, make things more complicated than they really are? I’m assuming I’ll struggle to find that answer until my final days here on earth. 2) Say a prayer for the newly-departed Joseph. Joe was a parishioner of mine in my first parish who just passed away yesterday. He had Parkinson’s disease. Joe converted to Orthodoxy very late in life (with the strong urgings of a certain priest’s wife!) and finished his time here on earth with all of his family and church friends present with him. He was a good, hard-working man, and I can’t help but think we need more like him. 3) Tonight we begin the cycle of services for the consecration of St. George Serbian Church here in the KC area. I’m still not aware what Saints’ relics will be in the Altar, but I’m always struck at a Liturgy of the powerful connection there is in celebrating the Liturgy literally on the top of the earthly remains of a saint. I know they intercede for us constantly!

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[Fr. Tim]

Interesting...posting a response to my own writing! The relics for the altar at St. George are St. Lazarus of Kosovo.