Here & Yonder

ST TIKHON’S: North America’s Oldest Orthodox Monastery Marks Centennial.

That Li’l Ol’ Mission from Texas …

Fr Richard John Neuhaus on Communion & relations between East & West:

“The only unity pleasing to God, and the only unity we can rightly pray for, is unity in the truth,” he said.

Even if others have their doubts, Neuhaus said that the Catholic Church is committed to working toward Christian unity. He said that John Paul’s inability to reconcile with the Orthodox Christian churches of Eastern Europe, despite numerous efforts, is the pope’s single greatest disappointment.

Read it H E R E.

Antiochian Orthodox Bishop Basil’s mother, Genevieve Essey, fell asleep in the Lord on February 24th. Here’s a beautiful tribute from her hometown newspaper. (Note: “Bill” is the Bishop).

In the 1950s and ’60s, [she] helped to operate Ernie’s Dance Studio in Monessen. She saw to it that Bill Essey, who was 3 years old at the time, started taking tap dancing lessons.

“We performed at Kennywood Park and on KDKA (television),” Bill Essey recalled. “Some of it was real nice.”

“I liked it,” he added, “but by the time I got to be 13 it wasn’t something I wanted to do. Thankfully, by that time my sister was ready to start.”