I am the priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Cedar Rapids, IA. It took me twenty six years and a long and fairly succesful incursion in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics to start on this road, but here I am, hoping to learn how to pray, how to live, and how to love. These are my thoughts, questions, musings, wonderings, as I try to serve God.
posted by Virgil Petrisor at 12:51 PM
I was born in Bacau, Romania a fair while ago. After moving around - first within Romania, then to Nigeria and back to Romania - I came to the US a millennium ago (or thereabouts). I have a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Midwestern State University, and an MSCSE and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. I was the intramural champion at one mile at MSU and our team won the intramural championship in soccer at ND. I have studied voice for eight years (tenor). Now I have reached what I believe to be my true place in life as a servant of the Church.
3 Comments:
Thank you for putting up the wiki notes! It would be nice if all the students there did likewise. Now if only the monks at Mount Athos would do the same. Hm.
You're welcome. When I first started getting interested in theology, I kept looking for the sort of resource I'm hoping the wiki will become and couldn't find one. That was the rationale behind starting it. I don't know that it would help to have every student post notes, but it would be nice to have notes from each class so that most of the curriculum would be covered.
As for the monks at Mount Athos (or elsewhere, for that matter), I'm afraid their knowledge is much harder to quantify and put on paper than the material for our courses.
in Christ,
vp
Somewhere in your blog you mention your desire to visit Mount Athos. You have in your area (in Belmont, MA) a man who is very familiar with Mount Athos. His name is Dr. Constantine Cavarnos. I assume he is still living (he would be quite elderly now). It would be worthwhile to make an appointment and visit Dr. Cavarnos. I think some his books on Mount Athos may be for sale at the seminary's bookstore and, certainly, his books are in the seminary's library.
If only some of the abbots at Mount Athos would put up a blog. How nice it would be to read such a blog from contemporary Athonite abbots. (I must say that your wife's idea about having you start a blog was an excellent idea.)
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