Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Tuesday ~ Dedicated to the Forerunner, John the Baptist Troparion (Tone 2)The memory of the just is mentioned with praise. As for you, O Forerunner, the Lord’s witness is enough: indeed, you were greater than the prophets since you were…
In the Orthodox Liturgical Tradition each day of the week is dedicated to a certain person or person, or perhaps like Monday to the Holy Angels. If there is no special prayer for the saint of the day these prayers…
Morning Prayer Thanks be to Thee, Jesus Christ,Who brought’st me up from last night,To the gladsome light of this day,To win everlasting life for my soul,Through the blood Thou didst shed for me. Praised be to Three, O God, for…
I am participating in what is called a blog carnival today. The idea is to get many bloggers to write about the same topic on the same day and then link all of the posts together. This provides a wide…
I have not really been following all of the event going on in Iran but it looks like there is a change in the air. Last night it was announced that the present president had won reelection. Then there were…
“I can’t git no lower, Willie. Me buttons is in th’ way.” On this 65th Anniversary of D Day let us pause and remember all of those involved in securing our freedoms around the world. H/T to OrthoCuban for the…
If you follow me on either Twitter or Facebook you know that yesterday afternoon I received a call from my father that my mother had yet again gone to the hospital. She had gone to the doctor for a follow…
Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and…
Collect for Maundy Thursday Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in…
The Collect of Holy Wednesday Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident…