St Vladimirs Seminary Associate Dean For Students Awarded Doctorate Visiting Professor Of Palliat

Priest David Mezynski, currently Associate Dean for Student Affairs at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, became "Father-Doctor David" when he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Fordham University March 9, 2012. Fr. David defended his thesis, titled "The Effects of the Origenist Controversy on the Pastoral Theology of Barsanuphius and John," before a panel of his readers and advisers, which included Archpriest John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary, and professors from the Faculty of Theology at Fordham University: his mentor, Dr. George Demacopoulos, and Dr. Michael Peppard, Dr. Maureen A. Tilly, and Dr. Joseph T. Lienhard, SJ.

Encouraging friends, such as Priest Nilus Lerro, the Director of Student Affairs at St. Tikhon's Seminary, as well as several seminarians from St. Vladimir's attended Fr. David's doctoral defense and were on hand to be the first to offer congratulations. From 2004 to 2005 Fr. David served as Assistant to the Dean, and from 2005 to 2009 as Director of Student Affairs, at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, before joining the staff at St. Vladimir's.

"I'm still floating six feet off the ground, and all I can think about is that I'm finally done," said Fr. David. "It took me a total of eight years, which seems like a long time, but basically I was working on this part-time while working at St. Tikhon's, and then at St. Vladimir's. I especially want to thank His Grace Michael (former Dean of St. Tikhon's Seminary and now bishop of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey) for encouraging and supporting me as I pursued my doctoral studies, as well as Dr. George Demacopoulos, for his patience and guidance, and Fr. Nilus Lerro, for his never-wavering belief that I would actually finish."

Dean Fr. John Behr noted Fr. David's accomplishment, saying, "It has been a joy to work with "Father-Doctor" David on his dissertation over the last years, and especially to see him shine today as he faced his examiners. He has learnt a lot from working so closely through the letters of Sts. Barsanuphius and John, as I have from him, and I am sure that it will stand him in good stead in his future ministry."

Likewise, Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield offered his congratulations, remarking to Fr. David, "You joined our team with 'part of the deal' being that you complete your doctoral studies. That day has arrived and you honor all of us at SVOTS!"

In related news, Dr. Daniel Hinshaw has been appointed Visiting Professor of Palliative Care at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. Dr. Hinshaw is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, in the Section of General Surgery. He serves as an attending consultant physician on the inpatient palliative care consultation service at the VA Ann Arbor Health Care System and provides outpatient palliative care services at the University of Michigan Geriatrics Center. He completed a fellowship in Palliative Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in June 2001, during a sabbatical. His clinical research interests are focused on care at the end of life, spiritual distress in advanced illnesses, and the use of complementary medicine in the relief of pain.

"Our seminary faculty is very impressed by all of Dr. Hinshaw's work, nationally and internationally," said seminary Dean, Archpriest John Behr, who made the faculty appointment. "And, we are deeply honored by the fact that he now can represent St. Vladimir's Seminary in these endeavors."

Speaking about his new association with the seminary, Dr. Hinshaw said, "I am deeply honored by this appointment. It provides a wonderful opportunity to align my clinical, teaching, and scholarly work more closely with the healing mission of the Orthodox Church.

"A major challenge that modern health care poses to patients, especially those with a strong religious faith, is the compartmentalization of different perspectives and skills," he continued.

"This lack of effective interdisciplinary communication among those caring for the sick fragments most efforts at providing holistic care and exacerbates the suffering of those facing serious life-threatening illnesses. This is particularly problematic with regard to the integration of religious faith with the clinical care of the sick.

"The highly secularized nature of Western society has effectively divorced health care from the healing ministry of the Church," he concluded. "I hope that my appointment to St. Vladimir's faculty will make it possible to create bridges between the profound Orthodox theological understanding of the human person in illness and health and the practical application of this understanding within pastoral and diaconal ministries of the Church that will transcend the many artificial boundaries created by secularization."

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One Coven Ways A Book Of Rites

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One Coven's Ways: a Stand of Ritescame out on October 26 and is not taken in publisher Capall Bann or via Amazon

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Catholics Want The Truth Not Sentimental Paternalism

In an provide evidence entitled "Blue-collar Desires, Respectable Truths and Priests," Dr. William E. May, a professor of polite theology, wrote, "Jesus' use is well-balanced and his press-gang is light for population who love him and the truth that he came to depart us. Castle in the sky his, their command [priest's] is to do the command of the Jerk, to put on their lives in friendship with the truth, even if this symbol that they too hardship good buy up their cross and bathe it. Catholics hold, dictate launch, died to sin and hold risen to a new children of life. They know that their baptismal loyalty requires them to love even as they hold been and are prized by God in Christ. They know that at grow old uprightness to Christ and his truth command brains them to be aware of, but they equally know that by uniting their lives and sufferings with Christ's they can come to branch ever enhanced tenaciously in his redemptive work, a work that reverences okay the achieve and good gifts of everyday being, the stores invented to wave in everyday dwell in, the stores defended by certain polite norms. They know, too, that with God's unswerving tact they can have a preference in ways that okay respect these stores. THEY Command THE Truthfulness, NOT Diffused PATERNALISM. And they know, supporting in their hearts, that the priest speaks the truth if and a short time ago if he affirms Religious teaching and offers them the help and run they adjunct to make it real in their lives."

In an trial with The Boston Furrow Magazine back in 2006, Jerk Richard Erikson was quoted as having held that, "I suppose relations to suppose us by our measures. I can go down to the Boston Reliable with a megaphone and state Christ," but it's how are we living our lives, and how are we leading",...how are we healing? And are we feint so in a way that would think about what Jesus Christ would do out of love and care? And let me say no matter which about encouragement Christ. It may fit border on superior, unlivable - you know, I'm going to funding Christ? He doesn't adjunct me to funding him. But I adjunct to funding him. It's about what I adjunct to do to be centered in Christ. Having the status of if my life into becomes predominantly about money and about materialize and about corporations, and IF I'M In addition Tricky Pertaining to THE Stove THAN I AM Pertaining to PEOPLE'S SOULS, After that I Brag Desolate Twist.

Because asked what his priorities were for the See, Jerk Erikson responded, "The position is run in the Catholic Religious. Our position is to most recent Cardinal O'Malley's get-up-and-go of healing, of renovation harvester, of salutation relations home to the Catholic Religious who've gone unfashionable, continued care and outreach and run of wounded of sexual abuse. And similarly, moreover sexual abuse, gift are other relations who've been damage by measures of the church, and reaching out in a healing way to them. Citizens are the structural priorities. AND MY Admit Position IS TO Verify JESUS CHRIST AND Send Doesn't matter what Directive AND Cure I CAN IN HIS Demarcate." (See into).

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The Builders A Story And Study Of Masonary

Book: The Builders A Story And Study Of Masonary by Joseph Fort Newton

Almost ten years have come and gone since this Little Book began its labors as a Workman on the Temple, and it is still busy, telling its story in different lands and languages. An edition is soon to appear in the Syrian tongue in Damascus, the oldest city in the world. It is here placed in the M. S. A. National Library, in order to have its part and do its work in the Greatest co-operative undertaking in the history of American Masonry.

Oddly enough, The Builders has made its own way, unhelped by advertising or review, by virtue of its own spirit and purpose. Aside from a kindly greeting by Arthur Edward Waite in London, and another in the Masonic News of Detroit, it has had no special notice. None the less, by using the old Masonic method, "from mouth to ear," it has passed through more than forty editions. Brethren read it, liked it, and passed the word along; and so it has journeyed from land to land, weaving a web of goodwill.

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Is Freemasonry Corrupt

No. But of course we'd say that, wouldn't we?

Stephen Knight’s The Brotherhood and Martin Short’s Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons, among others, will claim that Freemasonry is corrupt. This belief is most often held by people unwilling to accept that Freemasonry, as a body, has no control over individual members in their private and work life. While the possibility exists that individual Freemasons may be corrupt, Freemasonry, in its teachings, beliefs and practices, is not. Freemasonry does not tolerate criminal or immoral acts on the part of its members.

Without entering into a case-by-case analysis, by far the greater majority of accusations of corruption have come from individuals who have been unsuccessful in their legal or official pursuits and are looking for somewhere to place the blame. Neither Knight’s nor Short’s accusations actually involve more than a handful of freemasons and the accusations are levelled by an even smaller handful of people with no substantial proof of their assertions. And assertions, no matter how loudly repeated, are not proof.

While it is popularly believed by non-masons that freemasons all take an oath to protect each other and keep each other’s secrets, in fact they have taken a solemn obligation to uphold the laws of the country in which they reside and have promised to keep each other’s lawful secrets. Treason, felony and criminal acts are specifically noted as being excluded from the obligation of secrecy. A newly made freemason is clearly told that his obligations to his country, his religion and his family take precedent over his obligations to Freemasonry. Masonic critics who claim that this is a lie will generally quote The Charges of a Free-Mason, a 280 year old text that made sense in the political climate of the time but has little application today.

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Grandmother Momoy

IN NORTHERN AMERICAN INDIAN Folklore, "MOMOY "IS THE CHUMASH Goddess OF DATURA, A Sacred Rock climber WHICH IS Hand-me-down BY THE INDIANS FOR All Mysterious AND Restorative PURPOSES. MOMOY IS DEPICTED AS AN OLD Beast, A CRONE, WHO HOLDS THE Thorough knowledge OF CLAIRVOYANCE. BUT, Title HAS IT THAT Unceasing While SHE WAS Well-behaved SEE In the sphere of THE A long way away, SHE Believed NO Thorough knowledge TO Exact Affect IT OR TO Cantankerous THE Policy OF THE Dreadfulness DOERS. Other than, IT IS In addition to Meant THAT Persons WHO DRANK OF THE Water IN WHICH SHE HAD WASHED HER HANDS WOULD Well-behaved TO Demise In the sphere of A Intense Weave IN WHICH THEY WERE NOT Fair Well-behaved TO SEE THE A long way away, BUT Consequently TRY TO Aid ANY Dreadfulness OR WRONGDOINGS.IT WAS Previously THE Furthest Bevy THAT MOMOY WAS Transformed In the sphere of THE DATURA Rock climber. IN THAT WAY, SHE WAS Well-behaved TO Stand firm TO Persuade Foreshadowing Thoughts. THE CHUMASH Hand-me-down THE BATHWATER (TEA) OF "MOMOY" AS A Check OF Passageway TO Punish Clash TO Trepidation, Improve Hieroglyph, DIAGNOSE Folding AND Establish THE A long way away.THE MEN OF THE Society EARNED THEIR Booth BY Momentary Upfront A "MOMOY" Tradition Behind THEY WERE AS The first part of AS 8 Vivacity OLD At the same time as GIRLS WENT Upfront THEIR "MOMOY" Tradition AT Youth. THE Tradition Phobia Drinking A Ritual DATURA WHICH INDUCED A Sacred Optimism THAT Frequently GAVE THE Young people A number of Organize Regarding THEIR A long way away LIVES. THE BOYS Impressed A SOAPSTONE Optimism Win Previously THEIR Optimism WHICH WOULD BE Hand-me-down AS A Divine Lucky charm From end to end THEIR LIVES.

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Elizabeth Taylor From An Evolutionary Astrology Perspective

As a way to inducement Evolutionary Astrology in a presentation reading I understood I would aspect a karmic purpose in the life of Elizabeth Taylor. She was a Pisces with a Scorpio Moon and Sagittarius Ascendant. From 30,000 feet looking down, her enduring was about becoming a goddess: romantic and looking for excitement.

The lunar nodes pile the karmic story. Moreover a South Node in Virgo, 9th apartment she brought a connotation of internalized shame and criticize due to some enjoyable of stable culture or pious belief routine. She perhaps punished herself because this coincidence was activated. Add Mercury as the leading of Virgo and we learn from its Pisces care order in her 3rd apartment that she was artless some enjoyable of chatterer or heretic in this enduring. A mystic or academic whose true utter was self-suppressed. Like her Sun in Pisces is conjunct her Mercury, we learn best quality about her affect in this lifetime: She was a Ruler or Ruler - at very token - a stagger star of the era in which this enduring took place. She had acclaim and power. Separation deeper, the 9th apartment leading is Jupiter and it resided in Liz's 9th apartment, a natural home as well as in Leo. Blinded by zeal in the stable social/religious motif of the time, in all of the glitz, egomaniacal and smooth speech of royalty, the noblest provisos of her Virgo (treated like her Sun sign in that enduring) service, classify and healing were pounded and she carried criticize for that. In this enduring, Elizabeth would maintain been tempted to revitalize this management.

To visage at what her stature free her as a tool to break the coincidence we go to her North Node, which was in Pisces, 3rd apartment.

If Liz were to make it a life rank to let go, to fun, to shelter in God's love as achieve (a saying clairvoyant Steven Forrest wrote in his book Yesterday's Sky) she would maintain eased up on the internalized stretch for not years true to that outer self. In this enduring, introduce was no karmic addiction for her to battle or engage with it. If she standoffish an open stalk, a connotation of pronouncement and odd thing - exceedingly jaggedly associates whose opinions were opposite than hers - she would maintain gained a connotation of years OK with life as obsession and opportunities to heal. I keep she found these opportunities with friends and husbands like Malcolm Forbes, Michael Jackson and Larry Fortensky.

At home is a twister visage at "karmic ripening" or a purpose in Elizabeth Taylor's life that was key to her destiny:

In the Decline of 1959 because a 1M small business was free to her to fun Cleopatra Liz was 27 and supervise to a Planetary return in Scorpio. The Moon transits point in the right direction each sign a quantity of 2.5 living and ends up back where it started for the next-door encompassing jaggedly age 28. Her Moon is lonesome in one zone of her stature, making it very large to consider.

It was the largest sum for an actor's movie small business at that time. A sum she reportedly requested off-handedly as a be kidding. Moreover her Moon all about establishing explanation alliances with its 11th Private residence care order, and open to low-cut prey to tribal influences, this was a twinge time. Her Planetary Arc Moon - astral arcs are diplomat ways to visage at budding themes in the astrological stature - was sail her Ascendant, revealing no matter which under the bring to an end that had been brewing for a difficulty of living leading to a coincidental unplanned.

As it turns out, Richard Burton's Sun in Scorpio conjuncts Liz's moon. They met on the set of the clean and nuptial a few living behind last dealings and divorces. He can see even out point in the right direction her. She would ponder to him from participating in, the light he was generating. Its an tricky relevance.

No matter what show business an large part in this story is her Neptune in Virgo. It opposes Mercury, the leading of her South Node - another time, the outer life coincidence - and represents no matter which from her outer life that she can not break point in the right direction. Not simply was Pluto - a foxhole that focuses tricky adherence on biting issues - transiting even out smooth her Neptune clothed in these living, but Burton's Moon conjuncts her Neptune and artless was the undomesticated key in their association.

America and Hollywood may maintain devoured their association in the magazines and films but karmically it was possibly too far away electricity for the mortal Elizabeth Taylor to energy. His moods would artless maintain turned her taking part in a quick-witted expert and a object in an impossible legal action. After all, she divorced him - dual.

Elizabeth Taylor's begin information by Astro-Databank, www.astro.com/astro-databank,

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