Putting St Thomas Becket, St Julian of Norwich, and Julian of Norwich's cat on our new icon has caused quite a bit of a stir, mostly on my wife’s site (mmekourdukova), where you can see both her reactions (in Russian) and mine (in English).
As I said there, behind our skirmishes on post-1054 saints and types of tonsures lie other, much more serious questions of how we as Orthodox define our positions and roles in countries with non-Orthodox Christian traditions. My own belief is that we have not got it right yet. I’ll be back on this subject later.
Tomorrow, if I have strength and courage after the liturgy, I’m going off walking in the country. Our Belgian countryside is delightful in summer in its own special, rather discreet way.
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