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In the Secret Place of the Most High God
Read more: In the Secret Place of the Most High GodHe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 There aren’t many secrets anymore. I live in a city that is known as the “Secret City,” because in the Second World War it was one of the main sites of the Manhattan Project […]
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Saturday – the Most Holy Mother of God and the Faithful Departed
Read more: Saturday – the Most Holy Mother of God and the Faithful DepartedOn Saturdays, the Orthodox Church remembers the Most Holy Mother of God and the faithful departed. During Holy Week, the Church celebrates Christ’s descent to the dead and His trampling down death by death on Holy Saturday, just as a week before on Lazarus Saturday, it remembers Christ’s raising Lazarus from the tomb. Throughout the […]
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Thursdays – the Holy Apostles and Great Hierarchs
Read more: Thursdays – the Holy Apostles and Great HierarchsThursdays in the Orthodox Church are devoted to the Holy Apostles and the Great Hierarchs, especially St. Nicholas of Myra, the Wonderworker. As someone noted earlier, Thursday is the “twelfth” day of the week (if Sunday is eight) thus the association of the 12 Apostles – though which came first – the designation or the […]
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Unexpected Travel
Read more: Unexpected TravelI am rather unexpectedly traveling to Indianapolis for a meeting Thursday and Friday and will post as I get a chance (hotel at night, I suppose). I would appreciate prayer and patience with the blog as I will be out-of-pocket for most of the next two days.
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Wednesday – The Cross and the Betrayal of Christ
Read more: Wednesday – The Cross and the Betrayal of ChristWednesdays and Fridays of the Orthodox week are always observed more solemnly than other days in terms of fasting and prayer. The use of these days in this manner can be dated as early as the first century. The Didache, a Palestinian Christian document as old as many parts of the New Testament but not included […]
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Psalm 50(1)
Read more: Psalm 50(1)The singing of Psalm 50(1) from Romania
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Mission and Worship – America and the Orthodox
Read more: Mission and Worship – America and the OrthodoxThe following post is an expanded version of a comment I wrote in a recent thread. The question to which it responds is the Scriptural mandate of St. Paul (1 Cor. 9:19-23): For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. To […]
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Monday – the Day of the Holy Angels
Read more: Monday – the Day of the Holy AngelsYesterday I set out to write a short piece on each day of the week. In the Orthodox calendar, each day of the week has its own particular dedication – an aspect of the life and ministry of Christ or of our life as Christians. Monday is remembered as the Day of the Angels. The […]
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