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Prayers

A selection of prayers from the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America's widely-used Pocket Prayer Book is available on the site of the Greek Archdiocese of Australia.

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Protestants for Patristics; Fragmentation of Scripture studies

Looks like I finished with Protestant seminaries too soon: I was not aware of the "Paleo-Orthodox" Movement as such! (The first one discussed at the link, not the second one, which just sounds like...

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A 'Feel' of Orthodoxy

by someone coming into the Church from the Charismatic Episcopal Church, is described really well here. Some good writing there!

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Doctrine and the Church, including but not limited to the Papacy of Rome

The blogger from the previous post, Mr. Brooks Lampe in the Washington, DC, area, here tackles some heavy stuff, without it coming across too heavy! He's reporting and reflecting mostly on a book by...

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Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska; What angels really look like

[UPDATED SEPT. 28]The Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska - their collective feast-day (synaxis = gathering) - is commemorated today, the 213th anniversary of the 'official,' permanent arrival of Orthodoxy...

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Another Blogger warning

I'm starting to wonder if Blogger is worth the trouble! But FYI, if you go to edit an article already posted in Blogger, the version Blogger puts up on your screen to edit may not be the current...

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St. Nicholas movie update

Hey, check out the latest in the ongoing production of what may indeed be shaping-up as an "epic motion picture" as Hollywood says, the biopic of the REAL St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Asia...

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Traditioooooon, Tradition!

From Russian-born U.S. theologian Fr. Georges Florovsky:"Tradition is not a principle striving to restore the past, using the past as a criterion for the present. Such a conception of tradition is...

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Isle of Man on the Old Calendar...sort of

This doesn't bear directly on Orthodoxy, but next time someone asks what use the Old Calendar is, especially here in the Western world, send them here.In brief, the date of the chief local holiday on...

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Diptychs

No, I don't mean two icons linked side-by-side with a hinge to stand on your mantelpiece, although that's very nice!These Diptychs (misspelled on the actual PDF linked from this page!) play an...

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"Christ is Risen" in Latin; Blessing of Food

Christ is Born for us! Glorify Him!I know this post is completely out-of-season, but I just came across information here that Pascha planners might want to consider (in the paragraph just above...

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In Defense of Holiday Excess, Advent, "Epiphany," etc.

As you might suspect, this isn't exactly what it sounds like.If the old Catholic Encyclopedia had their history right a century ago - for instance, their pieces about Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany -...

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January 2: Wife, Mother, Lay Saint (non-martyr)

Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo, Russia (16th century).(BTW, Happy New Year!)

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January 3: St. Genevieve of Paris

A famous 5th-century French Orthodox nun.

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January 12: St. Tatiana of Rome, Deaconess and Martyr

Yes, Rome, not Russia. I don't know why her name is exclusively associated with the latter today!

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January 15: Another Saint in the Family

6th-century hermitess and foster-mother of saints,* Ita (Ida) of Killeedy in Southwest Ireland, was born into the ruling clan of the regional kingdom of Decies in Munster Province (Irish Deise Mumhan),...

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January 26: A Sainted Family

Parents Xenophon and Maria of Constantinople and their sons Arcadius and John (5th century).

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January 31: St. Nikita of the Kiev Caves

First of all, although Nikita ends with an 'a', it's a male name, the Russian version of Nicetas. Hence Nikita Krushchev, St. Nikita the Goth, etc. Several other Russian male names end with 'a.'More...

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How Orthodox Read Scripture

Interesting post from Orthodox Priest Stephen Freeman, a former priest from Anglicanism, specifically addressing issues with Protestantism, but not without insight for Catholics too, featuring our holy...

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Interview with OCA Primate; Parochial schools

An interesting brief talk with Metropolitan HERMAN (Swaiko) by the newspaper of the OCA's Archdiocese of Canada addresses succinctly his views on Orthodoxy here, and 'Why Orthodoxy at all?':"The...

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