Originally run August 8, 2003
As a change of pace from our usual articles, this being a slow news week in the Orthodox world, we instead present a feature we’ve been wanting to do for some time: a question-and-answer column featuring Fr. Vasiliy, official spokesman for the Church Overseas of Russian Orthodox Christians (or COROC), parish priest in Sydney, Australia, and father of renowned Orthodox rap star Bug Vasileivichivich. Continue reading
Serving Suggestion
Four-and-a-half-year-old Jamie (“St. James the ‘possle, but I’m a girl“) Florin watched as her one-year-old brother, Brian (“St. Andrew”) ate a $1,000 check out of the collection basket on Sunday.
“I thought he was puttin’ something in,” said Jamie, shrugging. “Except using his face.”
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First posted February 27, 2004
NEW YORK – Grocery stores across North America, Australia, Europe, Western and Central Asia, and Africa are reporting massive shortages of meat- and dairy-free “Pharisee foods” in the days leading up to, and commencing, the Orthodox fasting period known as “Great Lent.”
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