Church Mouse Chronicles

Our mice are celebrating the glorious Resurrection of Our Lord! One of them got a special blessing to attend the Paschal liturgy (spoiler warning: it's not the prettier mouse), but the other one had his eggs die. That is, they got a better dye. It sorta evens itself out. So what does Pascha means for us, and our eggs? Find the Truth in this episode, for He is risen trul- indee- quite.

In today's episode, we decided to take a breather from all the corona talk and dump all of our viral worries unto Fr. John Cox, mostly because he was available (as in he had 2h to spare and he couldn't think of an excuse to avoid the show due to the lockdown). Luckily for us, he assuaged our worries by telling us what we needed to hear: that this Pascha and this Holy Week and this Bright Week will be precisely as they should be! And we almost turned this into an episode about pizza...

Our mice have successfully hunted down their first priest. And what a great guest he turned out to be :)  We spoke with Fr. Photius Avant, the pastor of St. Sava Church in Allen, Texas (Orthodox Church of America), about how us Christians can (and should) use these challenging times to reflect, learn, adapt and follow Christ.

Our mice are in high spirits and they won't let some run-of-the-mill microbe put them down! They especially won't let it spoil the joy of Pascha for them, or anyone else. There will be 'Christ is risen.' There will be bells of joy ringing. There will be paschal breakfasts, in front of webcams and smartphones if need be - we shall have a Joyous Pascha!

Our mice are on the brink of insanity (doing Church Mouse show being one of the symptoms). They must not succumb to writing poetry! Or God forbid B actually singing while M plays the ukulele!?  That is why they are debating on a controversy that's all the rage right now - on whether Christians should take Communion during these trying times.

It was only a matter of time - our mice were separated by illness, but not in spirit! We share our thoughts on the Serbian response to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, sacrificing video and audio quality for the sake of staying healthy and practicing common sense...

Our mice (and their fellow Orthodox Christians) are entering Lent, a time of fasting (diet), intense prayer (quantity matters) and pious showmanship (wink wink). Can you pray and fast more than the mice this year? Are you pious enough? If so, we invite you to join our #GreatLentChallenge2020! Non-Christians welcome. Also Copts.

Mice talked about...miracles! More or less successfully, because making fun of Catholics and Copts was just too tempting... Anyways...miracles! Which ones do you prefer? Recurring miracles, one-time miracles, fake miracles? Our mice are partial to those simple miracles, the real life ones. Hey, did you know M was a 1st hand witness of a real miracle? Whoa...

Mice really really wanted to talk about miracles. But they got side-stepped by B's mole. Not just any mole, mind you. A mole shaped like...any other mole really. Also M's hurting toe. They can't stop talking these two! Where are the miracles they promised?

Morality...such a "sigh" kind of a topic. But mice are not shy to discuss and reflect on how morality looks like in the Orthodox Church and in Serbia in general. Hint: it doesn't looks that good.