St George Iconography Workshop

There are still openings for my fifth annual iconography workshop, to be held at St George Romanian Catholic Cathedral in Canton, Ohio, August 3-10. This is an intensive class in icon painting/writing for beginners. I teach, step by step, the process for creating a hand-painted icon, and supply all materials.
It is a great time; part [...]

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Sunday Night Journal — 6/22/2008

Guilty Non-Pleasures
–Maclin Horton

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Dual Communion?

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has suggested that Eastern Catholics can return to union with the Orthodox without relinquishing their union with Rome. While both Melkite and Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs have suggested this in the past (and it apparently has occurred to some degree with the Melkites and the Antiochian Orthodox) this is the first time that [...]

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Ostrov

The first dialogue in the 2006 Russian film Ostrov (“The Island”) is the repeated intonation of the Jesus prayer. The setting is a remote monastery on a thin spit of land on the shore of the White Sea, in Russia’s far north. Monks are shown at prayer, alone and together, in more than one scene. [...]

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Sunday Night Journal — 6/15/2008

Standing In Line at the Sinners’ Hospital
—Maclin Horton

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Sunday Night Journal — 6/8/2008

To Know and To Love
—Maclin Horton

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Sunday Night Journal — 6/1/2008

Love. Love. Love.
–Maclin Horton

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