Apparently LJ is undergoing a "Denial of Service"
attack. The last entry and this one were sent by
email. I can't post entries except by email, comment
to other journals, edit, or delete anything.
Well....maybe that's a good thing. ( Read more... )

Friday night at a Panakhida for one of the
parishioners I was more or less trapped in a corner of
fellowship hall and told some of the sordid details of
the ongoing O.C.A. scandal. I'm probably the last to
know but that was my choice. The only thing I knew up
until this point, after over a year of attending
O.C.A. services, was only that there was ( Read more... )

[edit: May 27, 2007...well, looking over this entry in 20/20 hindsight I wonder if I could use a little cheese with this whine. When I went to Liturgy this morning I realized why I was there and not in the Protestant church I had been going to for a number of years...the Eucharist. Duh! What a short memory I have. The Protestant minister asked me ( Read more... )

(I'm just recording this to remember the day he said it.) Fr. Victor is a man of extreme patience but today, just before he was about to serve communion to the first communicant in line, right in the middle of Liturgy, he said publicly in a loud voice to the congregation, with a little annoyance, "Excuse me for a second. You should remain standing ( Read more... )

Found at kimberly_tries

The low score on individuality is concerning, but the rest isn't so bad.
I'm tempted to go back and fudge some of the answers and see what else I come up with.

Your Score: a Knight
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For the first time since I started attending an Orthodox church I attended a Liturgy in a church other than St. Stephen's. It was an Antiochian church as opposed to an O.C.A.. I felt like such a rebel. I went to meet some LJ friends at St. Philip's in Souderton, Pa.


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a strange night dreaming of my sufi friends. i suppose it's just the night time sorting that dreams are for, but still, rumi ...

The Hidden

For a while we lived with people,

But we saw no sign of the faithfulness we wanted.

It’s better to hide completely within

As water hides in metal, as fire hides in a rock.

Rumi  ( ( Read more... )

Christ is Risen!

To all that have shared this greeting with me and those who do not yet know the joy of this season, Christ is Risen!

He has trampled death by death. And upon those in the tombs bestowed life.

What would it be like to be there...to go to the tomb expecting to anoint the body only to find He is risen? Would I be joyful? In my ( Read more... )

Как мне больно

Language: RUSSIAN

Как мне больно, как хочется жить ( Read more... )

lunch: Peanut butter sandwich no. 453