A little javascript diddy I wrote last night, shared for my English speaking Orthodox Christian friends, a bookmarklet for today’s reading from The Prologue from Ohrid.

The Serbian Diocese of Western America has hosted the Prologue online for some time, but the menu was not very friendly, particularly for a quick read on mobile devices, so I whipped up a quick javascript to connect to do today’s page.

Here’s the code to paste into the bookmarklet:
javascript: var d = new Date(); day = d.getDate(); longdate = d.toLocaleDateString(); a = longdate.split(' '); month = a[1]; document.location="http://www.westsrbdio.org/prolog/prolog.cgi?day=" + day + "&month=" + month;

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

From Kurt Vonnegut’s Introduction to Mother Night

To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

From G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy

Finally, on the matter of silence by way of an example:

The following video is a dramatization of one of the most dangerous passages penned by the human hand. If you do not discern the knife blade at the throat of eternity while watching this video, perhaps it is for the best. Even though I love Dostoevsky, I rarely encourage people to read his works. It is too easy to forget that the medicine for a man suffering from an iron deficiency could, if given to another, poison his life.

But such as it is, I offer it here. Set aside some time and a clear mind, this is not one for viewing as a chance encounter. If it does you more harm than good, forgive my poor judgment.

I do not like the special effects at the end of the production, but such is my gratitude at the rest that this is easily forgiven.