Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
In my last post, I gave an overview of the Divine Liturgy and briefly listed some of the elements. One commenter pointed out that more Western Rite Liturgies exists. I list only the ones that are approved for use in…
Over the next few days, I will be posting on elements of the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church. One thing that one needs to know, is that there is more to the Divine Liturgy then what one sees when…
For the last few weeks we have been speaking about what it means to be church. We first had to define what it means to be a parishioner. As a reminder a parishioner is one who; 1. fulfills their stewardship…
Recently, The Roman Church approved a new translation of the Mass in English. It has taken years to get into publication and it will be another year or so I believe before it is in actual use in the local…
As many of you know, I am a little bit of a Twitter fanatic. I like to post things that I am doing, like watching TV or baking bread. Things like that. I also forward Tweets from people that I…
When Friday dawned, Christ was sent bound from Caiaphas to Pontius Pilate, who was then Governor of Judea. Pilate interrogated Him in many ways, and once and again acknowledged that He was innocent, but to please the Jews, he later…
On Great and Holy Monday we commemorate Joseph the Patriarch, the beloved son of Jacob. A major figure of the Old Testament, Joseph’s story is told in the final section of the Book of Genesis (chs. 37-50). Because of his…
Those three words begin each stanza of what has come to be called the Beatitudes. In our Orthodox Liturgy we recite these each time we celebrate the Divine Liturgy. Yesterday during the Liturgy for the Saturday of the Dead, I…
Over on the AOI blog I can across a letter from His Eminence Alexios of Atlanta on the Swine Flu and the Chalice. I had the blessing of meeting His Eminence after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. His Eminence came…
The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the God-sent Messenger of…