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For those of you who are regulars to the Orthodixie Podcast, please forgive my recent absence and dearth of new episodes. I could offer multiple excuses but …

The truth is:

Ladies and Gentlemen, my microphone – “Big Mic” – took to cussing and, as you can imagine, this is not allowed on Ancient Faith Radio. So, obviously, I had to wait until I received a new microphone.

What’s that you say? You don’t believe that a microphone can cuss?

Hummph.

Although there are many words that could be substituted for Big Mic’s favorite bad word, on this episode I will use – in its stead – the word ***.

Oh, sorry – I meant the word:

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Here are some shots from last night’s service …

This year’s annual Pan-Orthodox Vespers for the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy was served in the new temple dedicated to St Basil the Great.

These icons, newly installed, were seen — pre-install — here.

Fr Anthony Baba (St Anthony) & Fr John Salem (St George) chant.

The clergy gathers for entrance into the altar …

Dr Bill Attra directs the Pan-Orthodox St Romanos Chorale …

The Procession …

Me, watching my step …

The Procession’s first stop along the north wall of the temple …

Having completed the litanies at the four corners of the temple, the clergy gather on the solea.

Views from the balcony.

Our guest, Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko preached boldly — even triumphantly — about humility, sacrifice, and witness.

Oh … remember that crazed looking kid at the bottom of this post? I told you I’d make sure he was properly installed in church, presenting a different image. (Then again, it’s still Basil in Greece, so to speak … just a different shade of blue. 🙂

JOHNSTOWN, PA – His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas, 75, spiritual leader of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., reposed in the Lord today, March 13, 2011 after waging a courageous battle with cancer.

All Diocesan Clergy and Faithful are asked at this time to remember the Newly Reposed +Metropolitan Nicholas as well as his brothers George and Michael and the entire Smisko Family in their prayers.

May Almighty God rest His Newly Departed Servant, Our God-Loving Metropolitan Nicholas in the Heavenly Mansions, where there is neither sickness, sorrow or pain, but Life Everlasting!

May His Memory Be Eternal!

A special webpage has been established to memorialize His Eminence and keep diocesan clergy and faithful updated — HERE.

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It was on this day in 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. Bell’s first successful telephone used a liquid transmitter: a diaphragm that caused a needle to vibrate in water, similar to the way sound waves vibrate in air. He spoke to his assistant, electrical designer Thomas Watson, who was in the next room. He said, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.” Later that day, he wrote an excited letter to his father. He wrote, “The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas — and friends converse with each other without leaving home.”

“Hello” is, of course, the standard greeting when most English-speaking people answer the phone, but this was not Bell’s preferred greeting, and it was some time before the protocol was sorted out. In The First Telephone Book, author Ammon Shea tells us that Bell favored “Ahoy!” and stubbornly used it for the rest of his life. His competitor Thomas Edison, on the other hand, preferred “Hello.” Shea posits that “hello” caught on in part due to the “How To” section in early phone books, which recommended “a hearty ‘hulloa'” as a proper greeting. The phone book’s recommended sign-off — “That is all!” — never took root.

The above was excerpted from today’s issue of The Writer’s Almanac.
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“That is all!”

St George, Houston is the site of Saturday’s Lenten Retreat titled

“Our Father…”

with Retreat Master:

Protopresbyter
Thomas Hopko

SCHEDULE

March 12, 2011
9:00 – Soul Saturday Liturgy
10:15 – Registration & Light Breakfast
10:45 – Session 1
12:00 – Coffee Break
12:15 – Session 2
1:30 – Lunch
2:30 – Session 3
3:30 – Question & Answer
4:00 – Great Vespers

$15 per person
$25 per couple
$5 per child, child care

Registration Deadline: TODAY!

Call the church office – 713-665-5252

Retreat hosted by St George Ladies Altar Society and The St John the Divine Adult Fellowship

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