To the tune of the Flobots’ “Handlebars” —
I can say my prayers with my icons now
my icons now
my icons now
I can say my prayers with more icons now
more icons now
more icons now
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Actually, though tempted, I did not use a song parody in this week’s podcast; but it is about icons found in an icon corner and, essentially, conversion thanks to the prayers of the Saints.
The Orthodixie Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.
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O Master Who lovest mankind, King of the ages and Bestower of good things, Who hast destroyed enmity and givest peace to the human race: Grant peace even now unto all Thy servants who dwell in the lands of the Caucasus. Establish among our nations love one for another; quell every uprising; and allay all dissent and temptations. Grant unto them, O Lord, health and oneness of mind, protect them from all tribulations, afflictions and sudden death; bring an end to all enmity and malice which ariseth through the activity of the devil. Plant peace, O Lord, through the intercessions of the holy Theotokos, of the holy Apostle Andrew the First-called, of the first hierarchs of Moscow, of the holy Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles, and of the Great Martyr George the Victorious. For Thou art our Peace, and we send up glory unto Thee—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Amen.
(Released by the Press Service of the Moscow Patriarchate)
Taken from the Antiochian webpage.
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The man who posed that question is currently unwilling to unavailable for comment.
BUT, there’s a whole lotta TRUTH in this video. Enjoy!
More than 100,000 people have been displaced due to the conflict in Georgia. SCOBA’s “International Orthodox Christian Charities” is distributing essential food and hygiene supplies to families in Georgia, and is working with the Russian Orthodox Church to assist refugees in North Ossetia. To donate to IOCC and for further information of its activities in the region — and throughout the world — go HERE.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — International Orthodox Christian Charities – IOCC – distributed emergency food and hygiene supplies to people who were displaced due to the conflict between Georgian, Russian, and South Ossetian forces. The distribution took place last Thursday in Tbilisi where displaced families took shelter in a school for the blind and in the nearby town of Tskvarichamia. IOCC is also coordinating assistance to refugees in North Ossetia (Russia) in partnership with the Russian Orthodox Church. “Most people had to flee the fighting in South Ossetia and brought nothing more than the clothes on their backs,” said IOCC Georgia Program Manager DAREJAN DZOTSENIDZE. The Georgian government and the U.N. are currently registering some 23,000 people who fled the conflict and poured into Tbilisi. Those numbers are expected to increase. IOCC released emergency funds to its Tbilisi and Moscow offices earlier this week to purchase food items such as pasta, rice, cereal, sugar and tea, and hygiene items including towels, soap and tooth paste. The collective centers where the displaced are housed often have two families in one room. “Many of those who fled hid in basements and forests until they had to find food,” said Dzotsenidze. “Now they are saying, ‘please help me to get home – even if you give me a palace here, I would rather go home.’” IOCC, which has worked on emergency and development projects in Russia and Georgia since the early 1990s, is working in partnership with the Georgian Orthodox Church in the affected areas of Georgia and with the Russian Orthodox Church in North Ossetia.
Image of St Nino – Equal to the Apostles & Evangelizer of Georgia, taken from the Clergy Brotherhood Memo of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America.
This just in …
it’s none other than …
John McCain!
More later … (here)
In the meantime, check out Staretz Sells Sea Shells in the See Store.
Also, Dixie has CHANGED.
Then, something serious from a guy who knows:
“For a decade, some of us have warned about the folly of getting into Russia’s space and getting into Russia’s face. The chickens of democratic imperialism have now come home to roost—in Tbilisi.”
Here.
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