Our Fathers Among the Saints, the Holy and All-Laudable Apostles, Peter and Paul

Troparion Tone 4
Leaders of the Apostles and teachers of the world,/ pray to the Master of all to grant peace to the world/ and great mercy to our souls.
Kontakion Tone 2
Thou hast taken the firm and divinely inspired Preachers, O Lord,/ the leading Apostles, for the enjoyment of Thy blessings and for repose./ For Thou [...]

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Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God

Troparion Tone 4
Today, like the eternal sun, / Your Icon appears in the sky, O Theotokos. / With rays of mercy it enlightens the world. / This land accepts the heavenly gift from above, / Honoring You as the Mother of God. / We praise Christ our Lord who was born of You. / Pray [...]

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The Nativity of the Prophet and Forerunner, John the Baptist

Troparion of the Forerunner Tone 4
O Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ,/ we honour thee lovingly but cannot extol thee worthily;/ for by thy birth/ thy mother’s barrenness and thy father’s dumbness were unloosed;/ and the Incarnation of the Son of God is proclaimed to the world.
Kontakion of St John the Baptist Tone [...]

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Fr Pat Hits One Outta Da Park!

From the homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man, Father Pat preaches about children and the Gospel.
Return to Barbarism (Acts 16:16-34)

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The Sunday of All Saints of North America

Troparion in Tone VIII
As a beautiful fruit of the sowing of Thy salvation, the lands of America doth offer to Thee, O Lord, all the Saints that have shone in her. By their prayers keep the Church and the world in profound peace, through the Theotokos, O Most-merciful One.
Kontaktion in Tone III
Today the choir of [...]

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Another of My Occasional Posts Reacting to “More Orthodox than Thou” Posts

I regret to say that I’ve wasted about ten minutes I’ll never get back skimming over a few posts of converts to Orthodoxy opining on what is and isn’t real Orthodoxy in the United States (most of them reacting to what are taken to be “Protestant” techniques and forms imported/infused into “real” Orthodox essences–or something [...]

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On This Eve of the Apostles’ Fast . . .

. . . may I recommend one of my priest’s Pastoral Ponderings:
The Twelve Apostles
(mp3 file)
As well as an Akathist one might pray in the next couple of weeks:
Akathist to Saints Peter and Paul
(I might add that Bp Basil of Wichita has asked that the Akathist to the Holy Apostles be prayed not only during [...]

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Fresh Pickin’s from LibriVox: Xenophon’s Anabasis

I love free mp3 audio of the Classics!
LibriVox » Xenophons Anabasis.

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Podcasts About Father Seraphim Rose

Recently, Fr Peter Alban Heers put up a podcast on the veneration of Fr Seraphim Rose, one of my patron saints (with St Benedict of Nursia), in Greece:
Fr Seraphim Rose in Greece (mp3 link)
You may also want to check out the three-part interview about Fr Seraphim put up on the 25th anniversary of his repose:
Father [...]

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Axion Estin

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