From the January, 2012, church bulletin
In Orthodoxy we use a lot of words and phrases that are not common, or are used in an uncommon way, or are from languages other than English. Some of our catechumens and convert families have expressed dismay at learning them. Here’s a handy guide to some of the ones people most commonly trip over.
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DATE: 01/15/12
FROM: Elizabeth Blankenship
TO: Kamchatka_Choir_Mailing_List@yahoo.com
SUBJECT: No Practice This Thursday
For those of you not in church this Sunday, or not paying attention, there is no choir practice this Thursday (January 19th). We will resume normal practices on the 26th. It’s important we’re all there on the 26th. We have to learn the new Cherubic Hymn since Father thinks the one we’re using now is sucky, his word not mine.
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DES MOINES, IOWA – If choking down the non-fasting food becomes a podvig, does that mean it’s acceptable to break the fast? When seven-year-old Katrine (“St. Katherine the Great”) Sanderson opened her family’s fridge, all she saw to eat was a weird tin of stuff and some Oreos.
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Monastic Quidditch at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
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