The Divine Liturgy ~ The Entrance Prayers
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 Liturg...
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The Divine Liturgy ~ An Explanation
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 ...
Sermon ~ Liturgical Peace
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 parishi...
English Liturgy
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 bel...
Come and See
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 f...
Great and Holy Friday
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 ag...
Great and Holy Monday
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...
Blessed are You…
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 Litu...
Swine Flu and the Chalice
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 aft...
Beheading of the Venerable Head of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
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, t...