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Let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us – Psalm 89:17.This is the cry of the Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses (who wrote this Psalm some 500 years before King David), born of his experience at the … Continue reading →

Where’s Flip Wilson when we need him? “Talk of the Devil has been brushed under the carpet in our churches in recent times. Once an essential feature of any decent sermon, Satan is now seen as an embarrassing reminder of … Continue reading →

We first met in Franklin, Tennessee in 1993. Mary and her husband, Conrad, were fellow Converts to Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church. We once had lunch at an Italian restaurant and Conrad told us that he knew of two St … Continue reading →

At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy on the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord on Mount Tabor, the priest blesses grapes … Why?Here follows some answers … The blessing of grapes, as well as other fruits and … Continue reading →

Remember when sane people used to say things like this …“This is not the first year that this lady has been mixing singing about human passions with Christian symbols – crosses, statues of the Virgin, beads, and now it’s self-crucifixion. … Continue reading →