Pray for Harbin
The city, known for its Ice Festival, noodles, and tall women, is under seige: Toxic Slick Flows Into Major China City.
Our Lady of China
Ora Pro Nobis
Harbin is also famous among Catholics for the Lyceum St. Nicholas, a school run by Byzantine rite priests of the Marian Fathers and open to both Russian Catholic and Orthodox students. In addition to Russian, Japanese, Chinese, English, Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic were taught. It was closed by the Reds in 1949.
On a personal note, my first ever student was an oncologist from Harbin. I was paired with him by Literacy Volunteers of America in 1994, after taking a brief TESL course with the agency.
The city, known for its Ice Festival, noodles, and tall women, is under seige: Toxic Slick Flows Into Major China City.
Our Lady of China
Ora Pro Nobis
Harbin is also famous among Catholics for the Lyceum St. Nicholas, a school run by Byzantine rite priests of the Marian Fathers and open to both Russian Catholic and Orthodox students. In addition to Russian, Japanese, Chinese, English, Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic were taught. It was closed by the Reds in 1949.
On a personal note, my first ever student was an oncologist from Harbin. I was paired with him by Literacy Volunteers of America in 1994, after taking a brief TESL course with the agency.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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