About
Hello, I’m Andrea, Chrismated Elizabeth on Orthodox Sunday, March 20, 2005. I used to have a career as an RN, eventually specializing in neonatology and labor and delivery. I’m the happy wife of George, happy mother and stepmother of 7, counting one stillborn, and happy grandmother of 3.
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Andrea:
Looks like you’ve gotta lotta stuff here. Good stuff, too. How you manage to write 2 – count’em two! – blogs… I’ll never know. I’ll have to come back and read more. Seems well thought out and balanced, too. Sometimes I think we’re all running parallel in many ways… wherever we are. Maybe that’s what the Body of Christ may involve. Hmmmmmm. Thank you!
Hi James. Thanks. I sort of neglect my other blog these days and have mostly migrated here. Being balanced is a goal, not necessarily achieved, nor sought with equal fairness. I really like the parallel nature of blogging. It’s easy to go back in your corner and just watch how competing, contradictory, or even similar but not exactly the same thoughts get played out. I enjoy reading your erudite words as well. Blog on!
Dear to Christ Elisabeth:
I highly recommend reading Protopresbyter John Romanides PATRISTIC THEOLOGY . . . http://www.uncutmountainsupply.com/proddetail.asp?prod=PTRO
Pray for me
Thanks for the recommendation. I have a copy and started reading it this morning at your timely suggestion.
Please pray for me as well.
Six children! God bless you! I barely manage the two that I already have and shiver whenever my husband mentions having two more…but then again, I’m starting to warm up to the idea of another. 🙂
I’m glad I found your blog. I’m reading through and finding so much of interest to me.
I started out thinking two was plenty, but sometimes things work out how one would never plan. The other 4 came about with a second marriage.
Your blog looks lovely, and I look forward to reading more.
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Gotta laugh at your questions and the responses on Energetic Procession this day, ( December 18,2008).
You’re not being “radical” in any way yet you sure make them uncomfortable.
My view regarding priesthood and women’s ordination is rather simple;
The whole notion of priesthood needs to be re-examined.
This is in keeping with re-examining the notion of Church.
This will take generations so I’m happy the questions keep coming up.
The Church is a living Body, not a monument.
I’m pretty much in agreement with them on the ordination of women. I think all of us, maybe women more, worry about properly teaching or representing the faith.
Andrea Elizabeth, I happened to stumble on your blog when I googled something. I am fascinated currently by Orthodoxy, and by what separates conservative Protestants from you. I’ve been writing about that recently on my blog. So, your writing interests me, and you also interest me because I am the oldest of six children myself, and I currently live in Dallas. 🙂
Welcome Kacie.
I would say that what separates us are many nudges in various directions, as well as a few pushes. 🙂 St. Seraphim Cathedral in Dallas would be a lovely place for you to visit sometime! I hope to be there Saturday for the visiting Elder Zacharias’ talk at 9:30 am.
Please feel free to look around and comment.
Hi ANdrea
Love your page
Im a student at Holy Cross and I love ST Maximus!
Im sure you are so busy but maybe we could chat sometime.
Blessed Lent
Rebecca,
Thanks so much for your feedback. It’s been a little while since I read Dr. Farrel’s intro to the Disputation with Pyrrhus and The Cosmic Mystery, but there are a lot of quotes from St. Maximus (and St. Dionysius and Sts. Gregory) in Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism. Have you read much of Olivier Clement? What’s your focus at Holy Cross?
Great Blog! I have been an Orthodox Christian from birth and it is interesting to read the thoughts of someone who came into the religion later in their life. Thanks for writing and sharing!
Thank you, Jessica!
Ran across your blog at random searching for the lyrics to Rachmaninov’s Ps. 104…LOL! Thanks for posting the transliterated Slavonic. See y’all Sunday and Monday if you aren’t traveling.
Glad you found it, though I haven’t been blogging much lately.
We should be there tomorrow and for the MDay picnic. We look forward to seeing you all too.