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 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Our Fathers Among the Saints, the Holy and All-Laudable Apostles, Peter and Paul
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts on Monday, 29 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts, The Mother of God on Friday, 26 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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. / [...]
The Nativity of the Prophet and Forerunner, John the Baptist
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
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 [...]
Fr Pat Hits One Outta Da Park!
Posted in Ancient Faith Radio Podcasts, Marriage and Family, Scripture on Monday, 22 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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)
The Sunday of All Saints of North America
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts on Sunday, 21 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Another of My Occasional Posts Reacting to “More Orthodox than Thou” Posts
Posted in Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 | 19 Comments »
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 [...]
On This Eve of the Apostles’ Fast . . .
Posted in Ancient Faith Radio Podcasts, Orthodox Feasts and Fasts, Prayer on Sunday, 14 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
. . . 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 [...]
Fresh Pickin’s from LibriVox: Xenophon’s Anabasis
Posted in Classics, Greek and Latin and General Classics Resources on Friday, 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love free mp3 audio of the Classics! LibriVox ยป Xenophons Anabasis.
Podcasts About Father Seraphim Rose
Posted in Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina on Friday, 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Axion Estin
Posted in The Mother of God on Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

