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Archive for October, 2008

A New Review of the OSB

Although I’ve not been following all the blog-reviews of the OSB–especially since so many of them were done by Orthodox converts who opined on what true Orthodoxy was all about; blech, leave me out of that discussion–I did want to call to your attention the sort of review I prefer: translational/textual. R Grant Jones, on [...]

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Friday Meditation XI

Now the Powers (entrance hymn of the Presanctified Liturgy) [Note: the Bishop BASIL mentioned in the credits is one of the bishops of our archdiocesan synod.]

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Nice site over all. This page–The Christian Catacombs of Rome–deals with the liturgy and theology of the catacombs.

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You can read about it here and here.

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Torture: The Gulag of Pitetsi

The videos feature quite a bit of Fr Roman Braga and the late Fr George Calciu: Gulag of Pitetsi, pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4

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Friday Meditation X

Lord I have cried I unto Thee (Psalm 140 [141]) Also:

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Loss and Longing for God

And I will restore to you the years the locust hath eaten . . . . (Joel 2:25) The suffering of loss is rarely smooth for us. It is devastating when it comes suddenly, unbidden, and without apparent rhyme or reason. It is more so when, sobered by the excision, we come to understand that [...]

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Friday Meditation IX

Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly-minded, for the King of kings, the Lord of lords, will give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly food. Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way, the Principalities, the Authorities, the Cherubim [...]

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Junia Among the Apostles

The current issue of Touchstone has a review of a book on Junia the A/apostle which I commend to your attention: Junia Among the Apostles. It is among the most clear-minded accounts of the matter, couched in a book review, that I have read. (I reference a comment by Dr. William Tighe in this post, [...]

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The Kyrie

In Russian: And: How to tie a Prayer Rope (komboschini or chotki):

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